July 19, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
A high-ranking official of Greece’ rail network managing company OSE was beaten outside a court after his testimony of the train tragedy in Tempi that killed 57 people. After his testimony to an investigator, he was set free. The Director of Electro-mechanical Systems and Electrification of OSE was attacked by …
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July 6, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
A Hellenic Train on Thessaloniki-Larissa route with 58 passengers on board was immobilized at Katerini, central Greece, the managing company said on Wednesday evening. Reason for the -one more incident – was that “falling tree branches disconnected the pantograph from the overhead power line,” the hellenic Train said adding that …
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June 29, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
A train with 400 passengers got stuck in a tunnel in Fthiotida, Central Greece on Thursday, the managing company Hellenic Train. Unions of workers at the trains denounce that the safety problems remain, still four months after the tragedy at Tempi when two trains collided killing 57 people, injuring dozens. …
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June 23, 2023
Society, Very Mix
600 train passengers on Athens-Thessaloniki route were stranded in northern Greece on Friday due to a technical problem. According to passengers, the delay reached 1.5 hours although representatives of Hellenic Train spoke of a delay of 50 minutes. The reason for another day of inconvenience for the passengers of the …
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May 16, 2023
FEATURED, Social, Society
Relatives of 57 passengers who died during the train collision at Tempi in central Greece in February filed charges against railroad officials and politicians, including the Prime Minister, against 17 people in total, on Tuesday. According to Christos Konstantinidis, spokesperson for the association of victims’ relatives, the latter are suing …
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April 26, 2023
Society, Very Mix
Greece’s Regulatory Authority for Railways (RAS) on Wednesday announced that it is summoning the Railways Organisation of Greece (OSE) and Hellenic Train SA to a hearing regarding alleged violations that led to the February 28 rail disaster at Tempi. After completing an investigation into the tragic accident, irregularities were revealed …
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April 20, 2023
FEATURED, Social, Society
The Tempi train collision disaster investigation committee has issued its findings in a 228-page report, 52 days after the tragedy that took the lives of 57 people. The findings report blames a multitude of factors including infrastructure, individuals and organizations in charge and makes a series of safety recommendations. The …
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April 10, 2023
Very Mix
An Intercity train traveling from Athens to Thessaloniki was forced to halt outside Larissa, central Greece, on Sunday afternoon due to a power outrage in the OSE rail network. Concerned passengers were left in the dark without proper information about what was going on. The incident caused unrest among the …
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March 31, 2023
Society, Very Mix
Problems in the troubled railway network of Greece are far from over despite the Greek government promises after the deadly train collision a month ago. Friday noon, and the rail track for the Suburban train Proastiakos in Patras were found to be broken. The train driver refused to continue and …
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March 31, 2023
Greece, Politics
In a last-minute amendment, ruling New Democracy granted inviolability to the Experts Committee investigating the deadly train collision that cost the lives of 57 people on February 28. The amendment was part of a broader bill concerning ,among others also “support measures for the victims’ relatives and survivors” of the …
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March 22, 2023
Society, Very Mix
Some train services in Greece resumed on Wednesday for the first time since the deadly train collision that killed 57 people and injured dozens on February 28. The first train started at 4:45 a.m. from Larissis central train station in Athens for the village of Oinoi in north-western Attica. Even …
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March 20, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
A woman who was injured in the deadly train collision at Tempi filed a criminal complaint at the Athens prosecutor’s office on Friday, demanding the full investigation of the accident. Filed through court lawyers, the complaint calls for investigating the criminal liability of every person in a position of responsibility …
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March 17, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
The Hellenic Railway Regulatory Authority (RAS) has found serious deficiencies in the training of stationmasters of the Hellenic Railways Organization (OSE). In a press release on Friday and followed investigation, the RAS said that an inspection of the theoretical and practical training attended by the stationmaster at Larissa, central Greece, …
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March 16, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
Hellenic Train has announced that it will make advance payments to the families of the victims and to the passengers injured in the train crash on February 28, 2023 in Tempi, in order to cover their immediate financial needs. According to the announcement on Wednesday, the following has been decided: …
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March 10, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
The Greek government announced on Friday a total of eleven support measures to help relatives of victims, injured and passengers in the Tempe train collision on February 28. Among others, the government announced a special pension, in favor of the families whose member or members have died, to write off …
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March 8, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
Hundreds of thousands of people, a human river of rage, flooded the streets of big and small cities across Greece, demanding justice for the victims of the fatal train collision a week ago. it was intiailly unions that had called for protests and a 24-hour strike. Chanting slogans “Murderers” and …
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March 8, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
DNA tests have confirmed the identity of a man’s body found in the wreckage of the passenger train. The man was a Syrian migrant. involved in the train collision near Tempe in central Greece on February 28 which killed 57 people. Authorities said he was a migrant from Syria and …
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March 7, 2023
Social, Society
The jailed father of a train driver killed in the Tempi train crash is to be released from a Turkish prison so that he can attend his son’s funeral. Citing sources, media report that this was the topic of a discussion on the phone conversation between Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias …
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March 7, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Minister of Citizen Protection Takis Theodorikakos ordered an investigation on the police actions during the Sunday’s protest rally for the train collision in Tempi. The Minister of Citizen Protection, Takis Theodorikakos, ordered an immediate investigation into the actions of police officers during the rally and protest march for the fatal …
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March 6, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
The station master of Larissa was remanded in custody after a testimony that lasted over seven hours until late on Sunday. The 59-year-old man is being charged with endangering transport safety and multiple counts of negligent homicide and bodily harm. The transport safety charge, a felony, potentially carries a life …
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