Hungarian railways MÁV is considering plans to build an express train service connecting Budapest’s Liszt Ferenc International Airport with the city center, daily Magyar Nemzet said on Tuesday.
Real estate developer Sándor Demján originally put forward plans for an express airport shuttle in 2000, but those were shelved in 2002. Since then, a train connection with the airport’s Terminal 1 has been created, but Terminal 2 is still not accessible by train, the paper said.
Plans are to extend the tracks to reach Terminal 2.
The Demján group, which built central Budapest’s West End Shopping Center, is interested in the project, the paper said, citing unnamed sources.
In another railway-related development, MÁV has asked engineers to sketch out plans for a big central railway station where trains would feed in from the three main stations: Nyugati (western), Keleti (eastern) and Déli (southern).
Such a station could be built on two levels in Kőbánya, in the eastern part of the capital, where a lot of trains already pass through.
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