Kelenföld railway station explained

Kelenföld railway station
Address:	Etele tér 1115 Budapest
Country:	Hungary
Coordinates:	47.4644°N 19.0203°W
Connections:	Metro: Tram: 1, 19, 49
Opened:	1861
Platform:	16
Owned:	Hungarian State Railways (MÁV)
Services Collapsible:	yes
Map Type:	Budapest
Map Dot Label:	Kelenföldi vasútállomás
Map Size:	200

Kelenföld railway station (Hungarian: Kelenföldi vasútállomás or incorrectly Kelenföldi pályaudvar, and until 2007 officially Budapest-Kelenföld) is among the Budapest's four busiest railway stations (the others are Keleti pu, Déli pu and Nyugati pu). Opened in 1861, it is situated south-west of the city centre, in Újbuda or District XI in the suburb Kelenföld.

Today, Kelenföld is an extremely busy station, with almost all passenger and freight services operated by Hungarian Railways towards Transdanubia passing through.

The station is served by Kelenföld vasútállomás metro station and is the terminus of the Line 4 of the Budapest Metro which opened on 28 March 2014.^[1]

Next to the station there is a suburban Volánbusz bus terminal.

Train services

The station is served by the following services:

• Railjet services
  • Budapest - Tatabánya- Győr - Vienna - St Pölten - Linz - Salzburg Hbf
  • Budapest - Tatabánya - Győr - Vienna - St Pölten - Linz - Salzburg - München Hbf
  • Budapest - Tatabánya - Győr - Vienna - St Pölten - Linz - Salzburg - Innsbruck - Zürich Hb
• EuroCity services – EC
  • (Lehár) Budapest - Tatabánya - Győr - Wien Westbf
  • (Hortobágy) Nyíregyháza - Debrecen - Szolnok - Budapest - Tatabánya - Győr - Wien Westbf
  • (Avala) Belgrade - Novi Sad - Subotica - Kiskunhalas - Budapest - Tatabánya - Győr - Wien Westbf

Since the completion of "Wien Hauptbahnhof" (Wien Hbf) all trains to and from Budapest go via Wien Hbf.

• • (Citadella) Budapest - Székesfehérvár - Veszprém - Zalaegerszeg - Celje - Ljubljana
• EuroNight services – EN
  • (Kálmán Imre) Budapest - Tatabánya - Győr - Vienna - St Pölten - Linz - Salzburg - München Hbf
• Int. InterCity services – IC
  • (Rába) Budapest Tatabánya - Győr - Szombathely - Graz Hbf
  • (Agram, Rippl-Rónai) Budapest - Dombóvár - Kaposvár - Koprivnica - Zagreb Glavni Kol.
• Int. Express services
  • (Dacia) Wien Westbf - Győr - Tatabánya - Budapest - Szolnok - Békéscsaba - Arad - Deva - Brasov - București Nord

Inland

• Intercity services – IC
  • (Borostyánkő-Tűztorony, Claudius-Volt Fesztivál, Savaris-Scarbantia, Alpokalja-Kékfrankos, Répce-Sopron Bank)
    Bp-Keleti pu. - Kelenföld - Tatabánya - Győr - Csorna / Répcelak - Szombathely / Sopron
  • (Baranya, Dráva, Mecsek, PTE, Sopianae, Tenkes, Tettye, Tubes, Zengő)
    Bp-Keleti pu. - Kelenföld - Sárbogárd - Pincehely - Dombóvár - Sásd - Szentlőric - Pécs

Public Transport

Kelenföld railway station is located in the 11th district of Budapest, Hungary.

• Metro:
• Tram: 1, 19, 49
• Bus: 8E, 40, 40B, 40E, 53, 58, 87, 88, 88A, 88B, 101B, 101E, 103, 108E, 141, 150, 153, 154, 172, 173, 187, 188, 188E, 250, 250B, 251, 251A, 272
• Regional bus: 689, 691, 710, 712, 715, 720, 722, 724, 725, 727, 731, 732, 734, 735, 736, 760, 762, 763, 767, 770, 774, 775, 777, 778, 798, 799
• Nocturnal lines: 901, 907, 918

See also

• Kelenföld vasútállomás (Budapest Metro)

Notes and References

1. News: Automated metro Line M4 opens in Budapest . 28 March 2014. Railway Gazette International.