Debrecen4U August 25, 2025

The renovation of Keleti Railway Station begins today

CEO of the MÁV Group, Zsolt Hegyi, called the four-week renovation the biggest maintenance investment of the year, which requires numerous changes in transportation.

“In recent decades, the most backlog has accumulated in maintenance work, even though the railway track constantly requires maintenance and improvement interventions, and in the absence of these, it inevitably becomes obsolete, which leads to slow signals, increasing travel times, more malfunctions, and unpredictability,” the CEO wrote in his Facebook post.

As he said, “From this year on, we will pay much more attention to improving the worst-conditioned junctions of the railway track, not patching or patching, but modernizing them.  Just as we did at the beginning of the summer at Rákosrendező, from Monday we will replace and repair critical infrastructure elements at Keleti Railway Station that have slowed down traffic so far.”

According to him, this work is an investment in the future for faster, more reliable, and safer rail transport. In his post, he asks travelers not to travel out of habit from Monday and to definitely find out about the changes before setting off.

During the four-week renovation period, passenger transport will be organized using transfer points in Budapest, and it is worth finding out about the changes and alternative travel options on the official website of the MÁV group.

According to Mávinform, the capital’s terminus of long-distance trains will be moved to other Budapest stations, Nyugati Pályaudvar, Budapest-Kelenföld, and Kőbánya-Kispest, ensuring the transfer to the metro network at these stations, affecting the Győr, Pécs, Hatvan-Miskolc, and Újszász-Békéscsaba routes.

The suburban lines of the Hatvan and Újszász lines typically operate on a shorter route, to Kőbánya Felső, where a new transfer point will be established. From Kőbánya Felső, the metro network can be reached by MÁV buses departing every minute to Puskás Ferenc Stadium during peak hours or by tram number 37, which runs every 4 minutes to Blaha Lujza Square via II. János Pál Pápa Square.

Source:dehir.hu | Photo credit:Pixabay (Illustration only)