In my thesis, I reconstruct the characteristic features of Hungarian socialist realist railway stations through an urbanistic, architectural and cultural material analysis of the four most significant station buildings from the 1950s, positioning them within the canon of twentieth-century Hungarian architectural history. The examined stations are Székesfehérvár (1949–1951), Hatvan (1954–1956), Győr (1953–1958) and Debrecen (1956–1961). Although these four buildings were opened in different years during the 1950s, between them they span the entire decade owing to the lengthy design work involved, making it possible to observe changing trends as well as the interplay and parallels among them. The general features they share include their ideologically inspired monumental and triumphal execution; the use of costly materials; the convergence of fine art and architecture; and the rational adaptation of complex functionality in order to satisfy a variety of requirements. The four examined buildings nevertheless illustrate how, apart from adopting certain expected structures, socialist realist architecture did not create an entirely uniform system but rather found expression in a wide variety of forms.