New railway tunnel getting built at Budapest airport
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The tender for building the Budapest-Belgrade railway will be announced by the end of the year. The construction might be ready by 2022, as minister of national development László Mosóczi claimed at the InnoRail conference. He also stated that a 22-kilometer-long railway to the airport is planned, 7 kilometers of which will go underground as a railway tunnel.
According to Magyar Idők, the news about the Budapest-Belgrade railway track were encouraging at the international railway conference. Vice minister for Ministry of National Development stated that the railway line is in an awful shape right now.
Its renewal was being planned for 25 years, but the Balkan Wars caused its delay.
The line plays a vital role in freight transport. Both Serbia and Hungary intend to renovate the railway track from a Chinese loan.
Serbia divided the investment into three stages, one of which will be executed from Russian funds. Hungary plans to renovate the Budapest-Kelebia track in one take. As Mosóczi stated, the competition will be announced at the end of 2017. The planning will begin then as well. The construction itself is expected to initiate in 2020.
New airport link
It’s about time too that this link is established between the very busy airport and the city centre, we do hope this will be a quick project
and not a politically drawn out one spread over 20 years. A world class city deserves world class access transport especially as Ferihegy is so far out in the sticks.
Bearing in mind it takes us to get from the airport to Esztergom some 2 and half hours it’s quicker and more comfortable to fly into Bratislava, bus to the railway station and catch the express to Budapest getting off before in Slovakia and reaching Esztergom that way