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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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, …

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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 …

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The criminal indictment related to the Tempe train accident was forwarded to the Greek Parliament by the Justice Minister on Thursday. The criminal file refers to the covering with earth the area where the fatal train collision took place in February 2023. According to Parliament Speaker Odysseas Konstantinopoulos, the indictment …

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Allegations that the government tampered the leaked dialogue between the station master in Larissa and the train driver of the Ιntercity before the Tempi disaster set the political scenery in Greece on fire on Sunday. Five opposition parties demanded “no confidence vote” against the government of Kyriakos Mitsotakis, a challenge …

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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 …

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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 …

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Thousands of citizens took to the streets of Athens, Thessaloniki and other major Greek cities on Wednesday to commemorate the 57 victims of the train collision disaster in Tempi a year ago, to demand “justice” and the end of cover up attempts from the side of the government. Protesters spray …

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They were all there: parents and spouses and children of the 57 people who found a tragic death in the train crash in Tempi on February 28, 2023. One year later, with tears in their eyes and trembling voices, the mourning families held a press conference about the government’s actions …

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For former Transportation Minister Achileas Karamanlis sole responsible for the tragic train collision in Tempi on February 28, 2023, was the “human error” and the “Greek public sector.” He bore no responsibility whatsoever, even though he was Transportation & Infrastructure Minister since July 2019. Appearing at the Parliament committee investigating …

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A train driver was injured by broken glasses when the train serving the Thessaloniki-Drama route on Friday collided with a tree on the line near Lachanokipi. As a result of the collision, the windshield of the train was broken and one of the two train drivers was injured and taken …

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A Proastiakos suburban railway service from Rio to Agios Andreas in the port city of Patras with 72 people on board was partially derailed on Wednesday, the Hellenic Train said in a press release. The train came off  the tracks at the junction of Gounari and Othonos Streets in Patras. …

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A proposal for setting up an Inquiry Committee to investigate the fatal train collision at Tempi on February 28, 2023 was approved by the plenary session of the Greek Parliament in a roll call vote on Wednesday evening. The proposal titled ‘The investigation of the Tempi crime and all aspects …

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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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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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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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