{"id":33,"date":"2008-11-29T23:15:31","date_gmt":"2008-11-29T22:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/2008\/11\/29\/east-west-and-counter-intuitive-trainstations\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T12:16:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T11:16:41","slug":"east-west-and-counter-intuitive-trainstations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/2008\/11\/29\/east-west-and-counter-intuitive-trainstations\/","title":{"rendered":"East \/ West and counter-intuitive train stations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was booking train tickets from Vienna to Budapest this week and noticed the following absurdity:<\/p>\n<p>My train from Vienna to Budapest leaves at <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wien_Westbahnhof\">Wien Westbahnhof<\/a> and arrives at <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eastern_Railway_Station_(Budapest)\">Budapest Keleti p&aacute;lyaudvar<\/a>. In other words, I&#8217;m leaving from the western train terminal in Vienna and will arrive at the eastern train station in Budapest.<\/p>\n<p>So far, so good. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just that Budapest is straight to the east of Vienna.<\/p>\n<p>(Yes, there are good reasons for that, for the Vienna side it&#8217;s that the train is coming from Zurich. In Budapest Keleti seems to be the default station for international trains.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was booking train tickets from Vienna to Budapest this week and noticed the following absurdity: My train from Vienna to Budapest leaves at Wien Westbahnhof and arrives at Budapest Keleti p&aacute;lyaudvar. In other words, I&#8217;m leaving from the western train terminal in Vienna and will arrive at the eastern train station in Budapest. So [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-austria","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions\/1034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lendl.priv.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}