Budapest, Sep 1 (IANS): The Hungarian authorities reopened the Keleti train station here after closing it for over an hour but hundreds of refugees waiting to board trains were denied access, a media report said on Tuesday.

Spokesman for the Hungarian state railways, Viktor Vaczi said that the station has been reopened, stressing that delays are expected to last until Tuesday night due to the temporary closure of the capital's main railway station, EFE news reported.

According to the state-run news agency MTI, Hungarian police officers are preventing refugees, who gathered outside the station's building, from boarding trains leaving for Germany and Austria.

Meanwhile, many refugees protested in front of the station building, asking authorities to allow them to leave.

Hungary, which belongs to the Schengen area that allows free movement among 26 European countries, announced that it has received more than 150,000 immigrants since the beginning of the year.

It has finished construction of a barbed wire fence along its borders with Serbia to curb the influx of refugees from the Middle East through Turkey, Greece, Macedonia and Serbia.