Thessaly Railways

About eight months after a severe storm in the Thessaly region of central Greece flooded the region, restoration of the damaged Hellenic Railways Organisation (OSE) network in the area is facing significant delays. 

The iconic tourist trains of Pilio in central Greece will resume service on Friday on the route Ano Lechonia-Milies-Ano Lechonia on Mount Pilio, following the restoration of the Hellenic Railways Organization (OSE) line, according to a Hellenic Train announcement.

It noted that in order to better serve Easter excursionists, the itineraries will also take place on Monday and Tuesday. 

"You don't brake in time," says the Hellenic Railways Organization (OSE), "You don't pick up the trees from the tracks," Hellenic Train replies, as Kathimerini understands.

"The infrastructure is problematic," argues Hellenic Train, "the trains are not maintained, they have breakdowns," OSE claims.

Five people, most of them senior managers at state-run Hellenic Railways Organisation (OSE) which operates the rail network, gained access to the organization's audio files from the night of the train collision at Tempe in the early hours of March 1, 2023, railway executives told Kathimerini on condition of anonymity.

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

TV crews gather outside an Athens courthouse for the first trial on Friday concerning a lawsuit filed by relatives of a victim of the Tempe train crash, Greece's deadliest, in late February 2023. The trial was adjourned until April 5.

Relatives of the 57 victims of Greece's deadliest train crash attended a memorial service to mark the anniversary, in Tempe, central Greece on Wednesday. Relatives left flowers at the fence alongside the tracks where the collision occurred, with the names and photos of the victims.

Thousands of striking Greek workers and students marched through central Athens on Wednesday to mark the anniversary of the country's deadliest train crash - and demand justice and bigger pay rises.

Even though a year has gone by since the February 28, 2023 rail disaster near Larissa at Tempe, central Greece - which claimed the lives of 57 people, most of them young university students returning from a long weekend break - judicial authorities appear to have widened the scope of inquiries in recent weeks, adding more names to their list of suspects.

Today at 17:00′, the meeting of the farmers of Thessaly