Debrecen4U October 17, 2025

Trains continue to be most often delayed on the Debrecen line

Summer also ended in terms of timetables in September. Since the start of school, the MÁV group’s services have been operating in a manner consistent with the off-season, but at the beginning of the month, the heat, reminiscent of the high season, often caused challenges in daily operations, the company announced. However, this was not the main factor determining the traffic of the entire month, but the temporary traffic schedule introduced due to the technical renovation of the Keleti railway station, and then the gradual reopening of the station.

It is a positive development that despite the closure of the country’s busiest station, the improving timetable trend was able to continue in September, the development of which was mainly made possible by the introduction of modern locomotives into service and the scheduled renovation of the most critical track sections.

Compared to September last year, network punctuality improved by 6.55 percent this year, meaning that 80.09 percent of trains nationwide ran on time. In August, this was 79.01 percent.

As in August, the Budapest-Debrecen-Záhony railway line 100 became the leader of the national statistics in September. Only 71.98 percent of trains ran on time here.

This is even worse than the summer data, as in August, 74.77 percent of trains on the Debrecen line kept to the schedule, in July it was 75.51 percent, and in June it was 74.27 percent.

In the case of buses, the delays of over 20 minutes, which are close to 1 percent, were caused by significant traffic congestion in September, which affected services traveling on Budapest’s access roads and highways, but delays of this magnitude also occur in large rural cities, especially on weekday mornings. In such cases, buses operate on detour routes—where possible.

Source and photo credit.dehir.hu