Panagiotis Terezakis

Efforts to restore the railway network in the Tempe tunnel in central Greece were continuing at a fast pace on Tuesday, with plans to open a single track for commercial trains by midnight.

An attempt will be made on Wednesday to resume operation of the railway network at Tempe, central Greece, which was cut last weekend due to a severe storm that hit Greece, the head of Hellenic Railways Organisation (OSE) which operates the rail network, said on Tuesday.

Hello, we’ve just come out of a satisfying long weekend for the October 28th holiday with a lot of traffic on the national highways as well as the Attiki Odos, which now inevitably needs to be expanded in the coming years because, simply put, it can’t hold us all anymore.

Remote monitoring prevented a suburban train from mistakenly entering a metro line at Doukissis Plakentias. The incident occurred on October 9 and was confirmed by OSE’s CEO, Panagiotis Terezakis, following a report by the Panhellenic Union of Railway Drivers (PEPE).

The new West Attica Urban Railroad is expected to be completed in the second half of 2026, Hellenic Railways Organization (OSE) CEO Panagiotis Terezakis said.

"The West Attica Urban Railroad, which began with the signing of the concession agreement in December 2023, is being implemented at a satisfactory pace despite quite a few obstacles, which relate mostly to land expropriations.

The police and fire department decided to remove the damaged wagons and use diggers to clear the site of the railway accident, the country's deadliest, in Tempe, central Greece, in February 2023, according to statements given at the end of January 2024 to the Larissa Magistrate's Court by the digging machine operators and what was stated, on condition of anonymity, to Kathimerini by officials w

Trains and the suburban rail service, which had stopped after the deadly accident in northern Greece on February 28, resume on Wednesday.

The first train is expected to depart from Larissa station at 4.45 a.m. on the Athens-Oinoi route. The new CEO of Hellenic Railways (OSE), Panagiotis Terezakis, will board the train.

Chief Supreme Court prosecutor Isidoros Dogiakos on Monday asked state-run railway company OSE to hand over all files relating to deadly accidents of the last 15 years.

Main opposition SYRIZA has attacked the government over the composition of the board of ERGOSE, a subsidiary of the state-owned railway company OSE that is responsible building infrastructure, saying it was exclusively made up of individuals drawn from the ranks of the ruling New Democracy party.