This is expected to be completed in the second half of 2016, or early 2017.

Since the renovation of the 53km line began in May 2012, passengers have had to rely on replacement buses to commute between Esztergom and Budapest.

The 33km section between Pilisvörösvár and Esztergom was opened to the public In December 2013.

Trains departing every hour from Budapest’s Nyugati station will cross the Danube on the railway bridge in the Fourth District, which was rebuilt in 2008-09.

The 53km trip will take 92 minutes, but the Flirt engines will reduce the travel time to 60 minutes.

A new stop was built near Piliscsaba and a new, two-track railway section was constructed between the Aquincum felsõ and Pilisvörösvár stops.

Some 14,000 passengers are expected to use the new line daily.

Source: Hungary Around the Clock

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