Katerini

Successive incidents on the railway tracks resulting in passenger suffering, human errors by stationmasters and train drivers, disputed debts, fines for violations of railway legislation on OSE and Hellenic Train imposed after delays, incomplete safety systems and a war climate among those involved in the railway network: This is the image that still prevails on the Greek railway, which does no

Hellenic Railways (OSE), the company responsible for the country's national rail network, is inspecting lighting signals and other safety systems after an Intercity train stopped just 1.5 kilometers short of colliding with a stationary suburban railway train in Pieria in northern Greece on Monday.

The Transport Ministry has launched an investigation into reports that another potentially deadly collision between two trains was narrowly averted on Monday, and not thanks to the automated safety systems that should be operating on the national rail network.

A nurse has been sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment over the fatal beating of a 21-year-old patient who lived in a facility for young people with disabilities in eastern Thessaloniki.

The young man died in hospital November 2021 after being beaten in the home.

An amusement park ride on which a teen lost his life last week was reportedly sold for scrap in 2020 but its new owner decided to keep it in operation after making improvised repairs, its previous owner has reportedly claimed.

The woman, who is described as the owner of an amusement park in the town of Katerini, has been asked to testify to an investigating magistrate about the case.

Delays are expected in all suburban train services between Thessaloniki and Larissa, due to yesterday’s fire in Litochoro and the loss of electricity, Hellenic Train said in a post.

The same post notes that there is a single line between Litochoro and Platy.

A wildfire broke out near a residential area in Litochoro, Macedonia.

The fire service has dispatched 18 firefighters with seven vehicles, three aircraft, and one helicopter to the scene.

A 112 alert message was sent to residents of Plaka, urging them to evacuate towards Katerini and Leptokarya.

When Sulejman secretly crossed the Greek-Albanian border in 1991 and reached Katerini, he didn't speak a word of Greek. However, he was determined not to return home, at least not without having saved some money to help his family and to later build his life in the new Albanian reality.

One man died when the van he was driving smashed into the back of a  tourist bus temporarily stopped in the emergency lane of Greece's main north-south highway near the town of Katerini, early Thursday morning. 

The accident happened at tthe 417th kilometre of the Athens-Thessaloniki highway, in the direction if Athens, five kilometres after the Litohoro junction, police said.

Fifty-eight passengers on a train travelling from the northern port city of Thessaloniki to Larissa, central Greece, were stranded on Wednesday after the train broke down, operator Hellenic Train said in a press release.