What's so special about Moskva Ter?

Moskva Ter is an amazing subway station in Hungary. I experienced it for the first time in 1996 while doing an InterRail and for 9 years I recurrently thought about it.

In 2005 I had the chance to return to Budapest and the first thing I did was to go back to the Moskva Ter subway station ready to pay more attention to it.

The special fact about this station is how deep the station is and the huge and slow escalator that takes you to the surface. The station is 38 meters deep and it takes 1 minutes and 44 seconds to arrive to the top. The effect is stronger if you see it for the first time from the bottom. If someone faints during the time the escalator is carrying them it's certain death. No one can survive a fall of that kind. Exciting!