Refugee crisis: Austria halts train service with Hungary due to ‘massive overburdening’
RT.com
10 Sep, 2015
Austria’s national railway operator says it is halting train traffic to and from Hungary due to “massive overburdening.” It comes as Europe continues to face an escalating refugee crisis.
“We need to temporarily suspend the operation of trains to and from Hungary due to the massive congestion…until further notice, no tickets are available,” Austrian Federal Railways wrote on its website.
It added that a rail replacement bus service is in effect, along with regular buses.
The rail company said that services will be suspended for at least the rest of Thursday because Austria cannot handle the volume of migrants crossing its border.
A spokesman for the company said it is too soon to tell whether services will resume on Friday.
“It would be irresponsible to simply let people keep streaming in and spend the night at train stations,” the spokesman said.
Meanwhile, Hungarian railways operator MAV has started running replacement trains to the Hegyeshalom border station to normalize services, the company said in a statement.
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