Budapest Keleti pályaudvar
| Budapest Keleti pályaudvar | |
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 Entrance building 2014
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| Data | |
| Design | Terminus |
| Platform tracks | 13 |
| IBNR | 5500003 |
| opening | August 16, 1884 |
| Architectural data | |
| Architectural style | Neo-renaissance |
| architect | Gyula Rochlitz |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Budapest |
| city | Budapest |
| Country | Hungary |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 30 ′ 1 ″ N , 19 ° 5 ′ 2 ″ E |
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| List of train stations in Hungary | |
The Budapest Keleti pályaudvar train station (abbreviated Keleti pu , in German: Ostbahnhof ) is the most important of the three major international train stations in the Hungarian capital Budapest in front of the Nyugati pályaudvar (west train station) and Déli pályaudvar (south train station), as it is served by most international trains becomes.
Keleti pályaudvar is actually the easternmost of Budapest's three major train stations. However, the name of the station comes from the fact that in the past mainly connections to the east were offered from here.
location
The station is located on the east side of Baross tér in the Pest district in District VIII ( Józsefváros ). To the northeast of it is the Ferenc Puskás Stadium and south of the Kerepesi temető , the official resting place of Hungarian greats from politics and culture.
On the west side of the Baross tér is the Keleti pályaudvar stop of the M2 and M4 metro lines of the Budapest Metró , which runs between Déli pályaudvar in the west of Buda and Örs vezér tere in the east of Pest (both M2) and Kelenföld Vasútállomás on Kelenföldi pályaudvar in the south of Buda (M4) run.
A tram line to the southeast , as well as various trolleybus , bus and express bus lines stop at the same place .
service
Originally, mainly trains to the east and south-east ran here. B. to Debrecen or Békéscsaba . In the meantime, however, most international trains stop here, especially all EuroCity trains going to Hungary . This station also represents the end point of all Railjet connections from Munich, Zurich and Vienna. The station can be reached via connecting lines from all rail lines leading to Budapest.
The following lines stop here in regional traffic (as of 2019):
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Személyvonat (passenger train)
- S25 Budapest-Keleti - Ferencváros - Pesterzsébet - Soroksár - Dunaharaszti - Taksony - Dunavarsány - Délegyháza - Kiskunlacháza - Dömsöd - Kunszentmiklós - Tass
- S60 Budapest-Keleti - Kőbánya Felső - Rákos - Gyömrő - Sülysáp (- Nagykáta - Újszász - Szolnok )
- S80 Budapest-Keleti - Kőbánya Felső - Rákos - Pécel - Gödöllő - Aszód - Hatvan (- Vámosgyörk - Füzesabony )
- Gyorsított személyvonat (accel. Passenger train)
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Zónázó vonat (express train)
- Z60 Budapest-Keleti - Kőbanya Felső - Rákos - Sülysáp - Nagykáta - Újszász - Szolnok
International direct trains
- D 346 / D 347 Dacia : București Nord - Brașov - Budapest Keleti - Győr - Vienna
Night trains ( EuroNight EN) from, via or to Budapest Keleti pályaudvar :
- EN 462 / EN 463 Kálmán Imre : Budapest Keleti - Győr - Vienna Central Station - Salzburg - Munich
- EN 476 / EN 477 Metropol : Praha - Břeclav - Bratislava - Budapest Keleti
- EN 40457 / EN 40476 Metropol: Berlin - Wroclaw - Ostrau - Břeclav - Bratislava - Budapest Keleti
- EN 40467 / EN 40462 Viennese waltz : Zurich - Innsbruck - Vienna main station - Győr - Budapest Keleti
International intercity connections:
- IC 472 / IC 473 Ister : București North - Brașov - Arad - Lőkösháza - Szolnok - Budapest Keleti
history
The in neo-Renaissance style built railway terminus was in between 1881 and 1884 by the railway engineers János Feketeházy and the architect Gyula Rochlitz planned and built.
When it opened, it was considered to be one of the most modern train stations in Central Europe , as it was one of the first to have electrical lighting and a central signal box . In 1998 the facade was restored.
Since the opening of metro line 4 in March 2014, the station has also been a crossing and transfer point for the subway. In the course of this, the station forecourt and parts of the interior of the station were rebuilt or renovated in previous years.
In the course of the refugee crisis in Europe in 2015 , the train station was in the focus of public attention at the end of August / beginning of September 2015, when several thousand refugees were at times in and around the station area to catch a train to Austria or Germany. The Hungarian police cordoned off the train station for a short time to prevent the refugees from leaving the country without permission.
Picture gallery
Entrance building around 1900
Entrance hall
Station concourse from the east (2015)
View through the station hall to the east
Trivia
- At the front, two statues honor the inventors of the steam engine and steam locomotive , James Watt and George Stephenson .
- The music video for From Sarah With Love by Sarah Connor was filmed in and around this station .
