Budapest Nyugati station
Nyugati pályaudvar (English: Western railway station), is one of the three main railway terminals in Budapest, Hungary. Known to locals and foreigners alike simply as Nyugati, the station is on the Pest side of Budapest, accessible by the 4 and 6 tramline and the M3 metro line.
History
The station was planned by August de Serres and was built by the Eiffel Company. It was opened on 28 October 1877. Previously another station stood in its place, the end station of Hungary's first railway line, the Pest–Vác line (constructed in 1846). This building was pulled down in order to construct the Grand Boulevard (Nagykörút) which is now smaller than the outer ringroad (Hungária körút - Hungary Boulevard) and the recently opened motorway ringroad M0 (2008).
The station gave name to the immediately adjacent Western Square ('Nyugati tér'), a major intersection where Teréz körút (Theresia Boulevard), Szent István körút (Saint Stephen Boulevard), Váci út (Váci Avenue), and Bajcsy-Zsilinszky út (Bajcsy-Zsilinszky Avenue) converge. The square also serves as a transport hub with several bus routes, tram routes 4 and 6, and a station on M3 of the Budapest Metro.
Since 2007 state railway MÁV has operated regular services between the terminal and Budapest Ferenc Liszt International Airport Terminal 1,[1] although Terminal 1 has been closed since 2012 and all departures and arrivals have been consolidated in Terminal 2A and 2B, which is 4 kilometers away by airport bus 200E.[2]
Beside the terminal and partially above its open area there is the WestEnd City Center shopping mall. Inside the station is a McDonald's restaurant which opened in 1988 described by tourism brochures as the "most elegant" McDonalds in the world.[3][4]
Train services
The station provides access to the following services:
| Preceding station | MÁV START | Following station | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terminus | InterCity | toward Kiev Passenger |
Distance from other railway stations
Hungary
- Esztergom: 53 km
- Vác: 34 km
- Szob
HU-SK: 64 km - Cegléd: 73 km
- Szolnok: 100 km
- Debrecen: 221 km
- Nyíregyháza: 270 km
- Záhony
HU-UA: 336 km - Kecskemét: 106 km
- Szeged: 191 km
Future developments
Plans exist to build a cross-city tunnel linking Nyugati station with Budapest-Déli Railway Terminal.[5]
References
- ^ "Intelligence August 2007". Railway Gazette International. 1 August 2007.
- ^ Airport, Budapest. "Budapest Airport Closes Terminal 1". Archived from the original on 2017-10-05. Retrieved 2017-10-05.
{{cite news}}: Unknown parameter|dead-url=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ "Nyugati Train Station | Budapest, Hungary Attractions". www.lonelyplanet.com. Retrieved 2019-02-27.
- ^ "This Is the World's Fanciest McDonald's". mic.com. Retrieved 2019-02-27.
- ^ "New Transportation Projects Proposed in Budapest: Metro 5, New Vehicles and a Railway Tunnel". Hungary Today. 13 November 2018. Retrieved 30 July 2019.
External links
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