Watch: newly released video of train derailment at Budapest Keleti railway station
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On Sunday evening, five carriages of the Claudiopolis InterCity 5 train from Cluj-Napoca (Kolozsvár) to Budapest derailed near Keleti station, blocking traffic at the main station. The technical rescue was still underway at dawn on Monday. A man traveling on the train broadcast the events on live video.
As we reported yesterday, on Sunday evening, the Claudiopolis InterCity 5 carriage from Cluj-Napoca derailed on the leading track section in front of the Keleti railway station, Budapest. No one was injured in the accident.
The technical rescue was still under way at dawn on Monday. Technicians are working continuously to recover the derailed wagons so that train services can resume as soon as possible. Keleti station is not accepting or accepting trains for an indefinite period, with trains arriving and departing from other stations in Budapest.
Train tickets are valid:
- M2, M4 metro and H8 HÉV on all lines,
- To get to Kőbánya upper station, take trams 23 and 24 between Keleti pályaudvar and Orczy tér, and trams 37 and 37A between Magdolna utca and Kőbánya upper station,
to Rákos train station from Örs vezér tér by bus 97E, 161, 161E, 168E, 169E (97E and 169E also stop at Rákos). - Replacement buses will run on the Keleti railway station (Kerepesi út bus terminus) – Kőbánya upper (Albertirsai út) – Rákos railway station section. The buses will run continuously.
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International railway lines
ICs from Szombathely and Sopron, Railjets, ECs from Vienna, and two-morning long-distance passenger trains from Hegyeshalom (9309, 9307) to and from Budapest-Kelenföld.
The Dacia international high-speed train from Bucharest to Vienna (346) does not call Keleti station. Instead, it can be caught at Ferencváros and Kelenföld stations in Budapest.
Factually – the Hungarian Railway network is IMPLODING.
The in-ability over the course of the 15 years Hungary has had to “bear” yes, we voted them in TWICE into office, living under this Orban – Fidesz Government, the GARGANTUAN problems of Rail in Hungary, has not received proper PRIORITIZATION of Investment.
Investment, spending MONEY in the WRONG areas.
Hungary, has a Minister of Transport & Construction – Janos Lazar – Fidesz, who is out of his DEPTH being a “Square Peg in a Round Hole” – that just continues to “led” place Hungarian Rail into a state of complete CHAOS.
History of Janos Lazar – enough LUGGAGE or DIRTY Linen – he carries, that gives clear in-sight he is a VERY questionable individual prone to not ALWAYS speaking TRUTH.
In TRUST – do we ?
Orban – the Fidesz Government nave NO Money to invest into Hungarian Railways and if Minister – Janos Lazar denies that – he tells “another” Lie.
Hungarian Rail is in turmoil and it will massively WORSEN.