Budapest Keleti station

The building was designed in eclectic style by Gyula Rochlitz and János Feketeházy and constructed between 1881 and 1884. The main façade is adorned with two statues depicting James Watt and George Stephenson. Inside the station are frescos by Karoly Lotz.[1]

The following trains call at this station:

Keleti Station and Baross Square in 1985

I. International services:

• Railjet trains
  • Bp-Keleti pu. – Győr – Vienna – St Pölten – Linz – Salzburg Hbf
  • Bp-Keleti pu. – Győr – Vienna – St Pölten – Linz – Salzburg – München Hbf - Stuttgart Hbf
  • Bp-Keleti pu. – Győr – Vienna – St Pölten – Linz – Salzburg – Innsbruck – Zürich HB
• EuroCity trains – EC
  • (Lehar, Hortobágy, Semmelweis, Liszt Ferenc, Csárdás) Bp-Keleti pu. – Tatabánya – Győr – Wien
• EuroNight trains – EN
  • (Kálmán Imre) Bp-Keleti pu. – Győr – Vienna – St Pölten – Linz – Salzburg – München Hbf
  • (Metropol) Bp-Keleti pu. – Bratislava – Brno – Prague
• Int. InterCity trains – IC
  • (Mura) Bp-Keleti pu. – Győr – Szombathely – Graz Hbf
  • (Drava) Bp-Keleti pu. – Győr – Szombathely – Graz - Maribor - Ljubljana
  • (Hernád) Bp-Keleti pu. – Miskolc – Košice
  • (Transsylvania) Vienna - Győr - Bp-Keleti pu. – Szolnok – Békéscsaba – Arad – Deva – Sibiu – Brasov
  • (Ister) Bp-Keleti pu. – Szolnok – Békéscsaba – Arad – Deva – Sibiu – Brasov – București Nord
  • (Traianus, Muntenia) Bp-Keleti pu. - Szolnok - Békéscsaba - Arad - Timişoara - Drobeta Tr.Severin – Craiova – București Nord
  • (Körös) Bp-Keleti pu. - Szolnok - Békéscsaba - Arad
  • (Hargita) Bp-Keleti pu. – Szolnok – Püspökladány – Oradea – Cluj Napoca – Miercurea Ciuc – Brasov
  • (Fogaras) Bp-Keleti pu. – Szolnok – Békéscsaba – Arad – Deva – Sibiu – Brasov

• Int. Express trains
  • (Dacia) Wien – Győr – Tatabánya – Bp-Keleti pu. – Szolnok – Békéscsaba – Arad – Deva – Brasov – București Nord

II. Inland

• Intercity trains – IC

Austrian ÖBB Railjet opererates every 2 hours on the Budapest-Vienna-Munich Line

• • (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
  • (Abaúj, Borsod, Hámor, Lillafüred, Sajó, Szinva)
    Bp-Keleti pu. – Füzesabony – Miskolc-Tiszai
  • (Dália, Jázmin, Kamilla, Rózsa)
    Bp-Keleti pu. – Füzesabony – Miskolc-Tiszai – Szerencs – Tokaj – Nyíregyháza
  • (Tokaj, Tulipán)
    Bp-Keleti pu. – Füzesabony – Miskolc-Tiszai – Szerencs – Tokaj – Nyíregyháza – Debrecen
  • (Alföld, Békés, Csanád, Viharsarok)
    Bp-Keleti pu. – Szolnok – Mezőtúr – Gyoma – Mezőberény – Békéscsaba – Kétegyháza – Lőkösháza

Keleti pályaudvar metro station has been a station on the M2 (East-West) line of the Budapest Metro since the line opened in 1970. The metro station is 14 metres (46 ft) underground and 193 metres (633 ft) in length with the platform 180 metres (590 ft). In March 2014, Line 4 opened making Keleti a transfer point between the two Metro lines.[2]

A planned fast train service would connect the station with Budapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport. Since 36 of 53 Intercity services to Budapest operate from this railway station, it seems highly probable that this plan will materialize.

Since it faces due east, at the Vernal equinox, the sun rises and lights the train shed

The facade of Budapest Keleti faces onto a large three-sided plaza called Baross tér. In 2005, work began to construct a pedestrian concourse and exits to allow better access between the Keleti pályaudvar Station on Budapest Metro Line 4 and long-distance train facilities. The statue of Gábor Baross, for whom the square is named, was returned to its location in December 2013 and work completed in March 2014.[3]

Budapest Keleti railway station is located in the eighth district of Budapest, Hungary.

• Metro:
• Tram: 24
• Trolleybus: 73, 76, 78, 79, 80, 80A
• Bus: 5, 7, 7E, 8E, 20E, 30, 30A, 108E, 110, 112, 133E, 230
• Nocturnal lines: 907, 908, 931, 956, 973, 990

The station is featured in the opening sequence of the 2011 film, Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol.

The railway station appeared briefly in the 2021 Marvel Cinematic Universe film Black Widow.

• 
  The station around 1900
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  Thököly Avenue entrance to Lotz Hall
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  The old ticket hall
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  Lotz Hall entry to main shed
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  Keleti railway station after the Battle of Budapest, 1945
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  Baross tér Construction in December 2008
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  Train shed looking toward Baross tér
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  Overhead view looking west
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  Eastern lights (7th prize photo on Wiki Loves Monuments 2013)
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  Looking west into the main hall

Wikimedia Commons has media related to:
Eastern Railway Station (Budapest) (category)

• Official website (in Hungarian)
• Station Overview Map
• A picture from about 1905
• The façade
• More photos: (1) Archived 2006-06-29 at the Wayback Machine, (2) Archived 2006-06-29 at the Wayback Machine, (3), (4)
• Virtual tour outside station
• Aerial photographs of the Station