Posted on 09/10/2015 2:03:31 PM PDT by markomalley
"Because of the massive overcrowding of trains coming from Hungary, ÖBB has to suspend train services to Hungary temporarily," the company said in a statement.
The suspension covers both Railjet intercity trains between Vienna and Budapest and regional cross-border services, it said.
It also called on volunteers and bus companies to stop bringing people to train stations.
"The flow (of people)... and the large numbers of people waiting at stations to travel onwards has outstripped available capacities since this morning," ÖBB said.
The announcement came after 3,700 people crossed the border on foot from Hungary overnight, many of whom were then taken to stations in Vienna to board trains to Germany.
Several hundred more arrived by train from Hungary, while a further 1,000 crossed the border on foot on Thursday morning, according to police.
An AFP reporter at Budapest's Keleti main station said that at the time of the Austrian announcement, around 500 migrants were held back by police from entering the platform where Railjet trains to Vienna had been departing all morning.
Earlier, police reported around 2,000 migrants were in Keleti - the scene of high tensions last week with thousands stuck in a makeshift refugee camp unable to board trains - trying to board trains to the Austrian capital.
Police said that some 2,500 migrants arrived at Vienna's Westbahnhof train station on Thursday. Another 3,000 were still at the Nickelsdorf border crossing point.
"We are doing everything possible, but this is no longer enough," ÖBB spokesman Michael Braun told the Austria Press Agency.
He also said that for now - unlike last weekend when at least 15,000 passed through bound for Germany - no special trains for Germany were planned, and that only a limited number of migrants were allowed to board the regular trains to Germany.
Interior ministry spokesman Karl-Heinz Grundböck said that the situation "is like last weekend, with the difference that this time we have limited rail capacities."
The death rattle of a once noble civilization.
“The Camp of Saints” was a warning, not an instruction manual.
All I can say is "Welcome to the party EU".
This invasion is unreal! I cannot believe that Europeans are allowing their nations to be invaded so easily, over the course of just a few weeks. Before our eyes we are seeing Europe invaded, its cultures destroyed. Unreal.
Before the Pope and the europeans accept these people shouldn’t they be asking these questions What is missing in all of this is ? What is creating this mass exodus of what seems to be enemys of Assad ? Are they ? If not then Who else are they ? Where are they from ? And what is the cause of their movement ?
Now that the Russians have activly engaged in supporting Assad.
Only one guy here running for POTUS so far has at least suggested we have enough problems of our own. It wasn’t Trump who said let some in, it wasn’t Carson, it was Walker.
It’s 1526 all over again.
This invasion looks like it was modeled after our own, ongoing invasion. You know, the one that WE are allowing.
It appears the Gates of Vienna are now located approximately on the Island of Bermuda.
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