Passenger trains resume at lower speeds on route of deadly crash

Greek passenger trains resumed service at lower speeds and with stricter safety rules on Monday along the route where dozens of people travelling to northern Greece were killed in a crash in February.

Greece last month reopened some passenger and freight rail routes that had been halted since a passenger and a cargo train carrying more than 350 people collided head-on on Feb. 28 on the same track near the city of Larissa, killing 57 people.

But no passenger trains had run on the Athens-Thessaloniki route where Greece's deadliest crash on record occurred, as railway agency OSE and the route operator Hellenic Train needed more time to address safety issues raised by train drivers.

Workers at OSE and Hellenic Train "have surpassed their own limitations so that we were able to upgrade safety levels in extremely difficult conditions and ensure passengers feel safe,"...