Breaking: InterCity derailed, paralysing train traffic at busy Budapest railway station – Photos
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On Sunday evening, five carriages of the Claudiopolis InterCity, arriving from Cluj-Napoca in Romania, derailed near the tracks leading into Keleti railway station in Budapest. Fortunately, no one was injured in the accident, according to an official statement by MÁV, Hungary’s railway company.
Traffic halted at Keleti railway station
Due to the derailment, access to the tracks leading into Keleti railway station has been completely blocked, causing the station to halt all departures and arrivals for the remainder of Sunday evening. Authorities have indicated that the investigation and recovery efforts could take an extended period of time.
Reports from readers of Telex suggest that passengers on halted trains were left without information about the situation. Many began walking toward the station on foot. “After waiting for 10–15 minutes, passengers started to disembark and walk along the tracks. We weren’t given any updates. After about 20 minutes, we also got off and left the area through the nearest exit, which was a gate in the soundproof fence. There was no panic, just impatient people,” wrote one reader.
Thankfully – passenger safety, no “reports” of passenger injuries.
Wow – those VERY very aged carriages – No Airconditioning – must have been for the 20-25 minutes passengers left without COMMUNICATION which is appalling, these AGED carriages must have been like a SAUNA.
Carriages – looked DIRTY un-washed.
NOT a GOOD Image – which if as we are constant regular inter-city regional and across boarder(s) train PASSENGERS is the CASE to often of dirty, un-washed train carriages, that the WINDOWS are just GRIMMED inhibiting your passenger viewing ability.
FIX it – demand from MANAGEMENT to the external carriage cleaning to the internal carriage customer comfort ELEVATED greater CLEANING processes.
Quite a 3rd World standard USED in Hungary – DISGUISTING.