Greece

A freight train on the Athens - Thessaloniki route was derailed in Fthiotida, central Greece around 2:30 on Thursday morning. There are no reports of injuries. The accident which happened near the town of Domokos, led to the closure of the...

An increasing amount of migrants are attempting to leave Greece by hiding in freight trains that leave the country for other EU-border states such as FYROM, Reuters has reported. Moroccan, Tunisian and Algerian migrants have been living in "old rusting"...

A freight train was derailed around 8 a.m. on Saturday morning, March 28, near a village outside of Thessaloniki, northern Greece. As a result both drivers were slightly injured and transferred to the hospital for precautionary reasons. According to Greek...

The first daily route of the freight train from Athens to Thessaloniki is scheduled for December 2nd. The deal for the trade trafficking from the enterprises of Athens to Northern Greece between TRAINOSE and the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises is...

One woman was killed and two others were seriously injured after a freight train collided with a pickup truck in the area of Myriofyto in Central Macedonia's Kilkis region. The crash occurred at 11:00 in the morning local time. According...

Two carriages in a passenger train, on its usual inter-city service route between Thessaloniki and Athens, derailed on Tuesday near the Greek town of Larissa. No injuries were reported among the passengers, who all disembarked safely. Photos from local site larissa.net...

The Greek railway workers have opted to join the general strike of General Confederation of Greek Workers (GSEE) scheduled for April 9. The Panhellenic Federation of Railway Workers (POS) is also planning further mobilizations for both passenger and freight trains during...

The Greek students who saved the lives of their fellow passengers in the Tempi railway disaster will be honored in the Vatican. They were there during the tragedy, laying down their lives to save others. Nearly eight months following the...

The Diolkos stone road, an ancient Greek engineering marvel, allowed ships to travel overland from the Ionian Sea to the Aegean, bypassing the Peloponnesian Peninsula. Like the Corinth Canal, which was finally constructed millennia later, it made passage around the...

Greece was summoned to the EU Court of Justice for failures in its railway infrastructure just two weeks before a fatal train crash killed at least 46 people. The disaster took place on February 28, when a high-speed passenger train...

Greece closed its borders to non-EU citizens as of 6:00 a.m. on Wednesday, March 18, 2020, in a measure which aims to contain the spread of coronavirus in the country. “Citizens of non-EU countries will not be allowed to enter...

Piraeus has been ranked 7th biggest among Europe's 20 largest ports in 2017, according to new study by a leading industry journal. According to Port Economics, the total traffic of containers at Piraeus reached above 4,057 20-feet equivalent units (TEUs), rising...

No passenger trains will travel from Monday until Wednesday, while freight trains will be immobilised until next Thursday, due to a new round of rolling three-hour work stoppages announced by workers in the Greek railway operator TRAINOSE. In a union...

Bulgaria has intercepted about 100 migrants who crossed its border with Greece illegally, the country’s Prime Minister Boyko Borisov said on Sunday. According to an AFP report, 56 Afghans and 40 Syrians who were hiding on a freight train coming...

Moutzouris, the historic train of Pelion, Thessaly, is ready for one more night trip. This special train will roll on the rails on the night of Aug. 19 on the occasion of the celebration of the 110 years of...