> When travelling by train to Budapest I arrive at what the timetable calls "Keleti pu".
> I found that "pu" is an abbreviation for "pályaudvar".
> This Hungarian word for railway station is a concatenation of "pálya" (track) and "udvar" (court).
> So the literal translation is "track court".
> The "court" part, at least in English, has legal and regal associations which make me think of the tracks solemnly deliberating
> and arriving at a verdict on whether my train will depart on time (or at all!).