The picturesque Little Train of Pelion – also known as Moutzouris – will begin operating again on Saturday, December 14, 2024.  According to a Hellenic Train announcement, the Pelion Train will depart every Saturday and Sunday from Ano Lechonia at 10:00 and will return from Milies at 15:00. A a …

The tunnel of the Railway Network OSE in Tempi, central Greece, was flooded on Sunday when rainwater swept debris inside. Train traffic connecting Athens to Central and Northern Greece was disrupted and some trains had to stop even in the middle of the route or just before the tunnel, as …

An Intercity train with 200 people onboard and a suburban Proastiakos narrowly escaped the head to head collision in northern Greece. The incident took place on Monday, November 25. Investigation of the signalling system has been launched. According to media reports, the Intercity train from Thessaloniki to Athens was carrying …

Shocking and unacceptable: Defense Minister Nikos Dendias said that the Greek Armed Forces will train children on the autism spectrum in skills suitable for military defense, such as image recognition required in AI systems and drones with the aim to identify targets. Dendias’ “vision” to equip children with autism to …

One more hazardous tragedy has been averted when a commuter train, suburban  Proastiakos was mistakenly directed to the track of the Metro Line 3 in northern Athens. The train had to drive backward around 300 meters to return to its proper position. The serious breach of safety was revealed on …

Thousands of Greeks and a sold-out concert dedicated to the 57 victims of the tragic train collision in Tempi is taking place at the Panathenaic Stadium in central Athens on Friday night, October 11, 2024. An organization representing several families of the victims has organized the concert with the participation …

Passengers trains in Greece will not operate on Thursday, 10. October 2024, due to a 24-hour strike announced by the Hellenic Train workers’ union and thus the driving personnel. UPDATE: A court in Athens declared the 24h strike by Hellenic Train drivers as “illegal”. So, there will be no strike, …

Dozens of passengers of Athens urban train ISAP panicked on Wednesday afternoon when the wagons were filled with smoke. The train stopped, passengers opened the doors with their own hands,got off jumping out of the wagons and started walking on the tracks and next to them to the nearest station. …

Greece’s trains workers have announced the launching of a work stoppage and a 24-hour strike demanding transport safety on the railway network. The unions of Proastiakos and Hellenic Train workers (SEP TRAINOSE and PEP TRAINOSE) will lauanch a 24-hour strike on upcoming Thursday, September 26, 2024. A work stoppage is …

Notorious problems in Greece’s infrastructure and service that the government is not willing to fix? No problem! There is always a quick solution! The establishment of a special police corps to fix things in the traditional way. Following a series of incidents in the railway network, the administration of the …

A 39-year-old woman was dragged for several meters between a driving train and the station platform in Livadia, Viotia, on Saturday, raising big questions about the traveling safety in Greece. Together with her three children the woman was traveling on a train from Athens to Thessaloniki. In Livadia station the …

Urban Rail Transport S.A. (STA.SY), which operates the Athens tram and metro networks, on Thursday announced the signature of a contract with Siemens Mobility SA for the installation of systems that will harness the kinetic power of braking trains and convert this into electricity, creating energy savings. The project is …

A truck driving on the regional road near Glyfada in Evia crashed on railway tracks and collided with a passing train of the Hellenic Train traveling on the Halkida-Athens route. The train No. 1551 was carrying 130 passengers onboard. Three of them, a 59-year-old man and two boys aged 12 …

The Hellenic Train, the private company operating passengers and freight trains across Greece, claims 40 million euros in compensation from the Greek State for traffic disruption after the Tempi tragedy and damages of the rail network caused by storm Daniel. Talks are currently ongoing between the ministry and HT on …

The Panhellenic Union of Railway Personnel sent two extrajudicial documents to a prosecutor and the Hellenic Train warning of the safety conditions in the country’s railway network. The first document is addressed to the Special Appellate Investigator of Larissa, central Greece. It makes known that there is recorded video material, …

A new lawsuit filed against former transport minister Kostas Karamanlis and his deputy Michalis Papadopoulos over the deadly train collision at Tempi in 2023 has been forwarded to Parliament. The lawsuit, filed jointly by the partner and parents of a victim accuses the former New Democracy ministers of dereliction of …

Sunday newspaper TO VIMA alleged on its front page that the audio recordings between the station master in Larissa and the driver of the passengers train taken on the night of the Tempi railway disaster were tampered before they were leaked to the media on March 1, 2023. In a …

Two executives of ERGOSE, the projects branch of the Hellenic Railways Organization (OSE), were ordered to post a 600,000-euro and 500,000-euro bail quarantees, respectively, before being released from jail on Thursday as part of a European probe into a deadly train collision in Tempi last year, and specifically the implementation …

Τhe Hellenic Train, the Italian state-owned operator of Greece’s railway, has denied reports that it is planning to divest from Greece. “Following a rumor that circulated in recent days in a section of the press, Hellenic Train categorically denies any disinvestment from Greece,” the company said in a statement. Τhe …

Students flocked to the Monument of Unknown Soldier in front of the Parliament on Thursday afternoon to restore the names of the 57 victims of the train tragedy in Tempi after cleaning crews erased them on Wednesday night. Erasing the victims’ names triggered an outrage in the society and the …