Budapest Keleti Eastern station (in Hungarian: Keleti pályaudvar) is the main international and inter-city railway terminal in Budapest, Hungary.
The station stands where Rákóczi út splits to become Kerepesi Avenue and Thököly Avenue. Keleti pályaudvar is the Eastern Railway Terminus. Its name, dating back to 1891, originates not only for its position as the easternmost of the city’s rail termini, but for its original role as a terminus of the lines from eastern Hungary including Transylvania, and the Balkans.
Keleti Eastern station is the place of the famous description in the novel The Wallenberg Dossier, in which Wallenberg wanders in solitude attending to board a train and meet Antal Ullein-Reviczky-Reviczky. The atmosphere created by the author was compared by critics to the loneliness depicted in Edward Hopper’s Compartment C Car, Automat or Chop Suey.
