Athens train station

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Σιδηροδρομικός Σταθμός Αθηνών
Athens Railway Station
View of the entrance building
View of the entrance building
Data
Design Through station
opening 1904
Architectural data
Architectural style Neoclassicism
location
Administrative region Attica
Country Greece
Coordinates 37 ° 59 '32 "  N , 23 ° 43' 14"  E Coordinates: 37 ° 59 '32 "  N , 23 ° 43' 14"  E
Railway lines
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The Athens Station ( Greek Σιδηροδρομικός Σταθμός Αθηνών Sidirodromikós Stathmós Athinon ), former official and now colloquially Athens Larisa Station or Station Larisa ( Greek Σταθμός Λαρίσης Stathmós Larísis ) is the distance and the main station of the Greek capital Athens .

location

Greek railway network

Athens train station is a few kilometers from the southern end of the Piraeus – Thessaloniki line . In terms of operations, despite its importance for tourist traffic as a simple intermediate station, it does not occupy a central position in the Greek railway network. The most important rail junction in the Athens area, where all long-distance trains stop with a few exceptions, is in the Athens suburb of Acharnes , about ten kilometers further north. From there there are connections to the Peloponnese via Corinth to Kiato ( buses run from there to Patras ) and to Athens-Eleftherios Venizelos Airport .

history

The station was opened in 1904 and named after the Thessaloniki city ​​of Larisa , which at that time was the most important city at the northern end of the Greek railway network, as Thessaloniki was still part of the Ottoman Empire . From 1921, the station had a free connection to Western Europe via the Simplon-Orient-Express .

The second Athens train station, the Peloponnese train station ( Greek Σταθμός Πελοποννήσου Stathmós Peloponnísou ) , which was built in the 1880s, is located a bit to the southwest of today's train station. It connected Athens with Piraeus and the Peloponnese via a meter-gauge route . As a result of the new construction of a standard-gauge line planned to Patras, traffic on the meter-gauge line from Athens was discontinued in 2005 and the Peloponnese train station was shut down. The listed reception building is to be used for cultural purposes. Since then, Larisa station has been expanded and rebuilt.

traffic

A Proastiakos train in Athens train station

The station is served by Proastiakos trains on the Piraeus – Chalkida line and long-distance trains in the direction of Thessaloniki. At Athens train station you can change to Line 2 of the Athens Metro . International traffic to neighboring countries has not been offered from Athens since 2011.

Web links

Commons : Athens Train Station  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Larissa Station", or Athens Railway Station on the website of the Greek railway company TrainOSE . Retrieved May 27, 2018.
  2. ↑ The Peloponnese Railway Station on the website of the Greek railway company TrainOSE . Retrieved May 27, 2018.
  3. ↑ Εγκαινιάστηκε ο νέος «ηλεκτροκινούμενος» Σιδ. Σταθμός Αθηνών on aftodioikisi.gr, August 2, 2017. Retrieved May 27, 2018 (Greek).