BREAKING: Budapest’s Keleti railway station finally reopens!

After the reopening of Keleti railway station was hindered by unforeseen problems early Sunday morning, MÁV CEO Zsolt Hegyi announced the good news just before 1:30 PM on social media: the station has successfully reopened and traffic can now resume.

“As you may recall, the restart of operations was delayed because, during the process of re-energising the station, certain switches needed to be adjusted,” wrote the CEO in his Facebook post. “We had prepared for such a scenario, so the (MÁV’s) National Emergency Centre immediately introduced the temporary traffic plan that best fit the situation,” he explained.

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“The switches have now been adjusted: the station is once again receiving and dispatching trains. In fact, the first train arrived at Keleti just a few minutes ago, and at 12:15 the first departing service – a Z60 headed for Szolnok – left the station,” Hegyi continued.

He added that traffic will be gradually restored at the station. During the afternoon, trains serving Eger, Gyöngyös, and suburban lines will return first, followed by long-distance services. From tomorrow morning, the station is expected to be running at full capacity once again.

“While traffic is being reintroduced in stages, supplementary and replacement buses will continue operating to serve the affected lines,” he reassured readers.