They will receive food before being registered and processed by authorities. Austria's Red Cross expects up to 1,500 people to arrive at the refugee reception centre.
The development came just hours after long lines of buses left Budapest on Saturday packed with refugees, following an announcement by Austria that it had agreed with Germany to let them in.
Hungary's government sent about 100 buses to pick up the thousands of refugees camped in front of the train station in Budapest and another 1,200 walking down the main highway to Vienna.
Austria said they would be granted entry regardless of European Union rules.
"Because of today's emergency situation on the Hungarian border, Austria and Germany agree in this case to a continuation of the refugees' journey into their countries," Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann said on his Facebook page.
The Hungarian government cited safety concerns for the decision to deploy buses, after days of cancelled trains and confrontation with riot police refusing to let the refugees pass.
But it appeared to mark an admission that the government had lost control in the face of overwhelming numbers of refugees determined to reach western Europe, having fled war and poverty in the Middle East, Africa and Asia..................http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/09/austria-germany-agree-accept-refugee-group-150904233629888.html
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