New Thessaloniki Railway Station
| New train station in Thessaloniki Νέος Σιδηροδρομικός Σταθμός Θεσσαλονίκης |
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Entrance building , street side
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| Data | |
| Location in the network | Connecting station |
| Design | Terminus |
| Platform tracks | 7th |
| opening | 1961 |
| Architectural data | |
| Architectural style | New Objectivity |
| architect | Hans Kleinschmidt |
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| Administrative region | Central Macedonia |
| Country | Greece |
| Coordinates | 40 ° 38 '39 " N , 22 ° 55' 46" E |
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The New Thessaloniki Railway Station ( Greek Νέος Σιδηροδρομικός Σταθμός Θεσσαλονίκης Neos Sidirodromikos Stathmos Thessalonikis ) is the main train station of the second largest Greek city, Thessaloniki .
history
Plans for a new train station were advanced in the 1930s. The future President of the Deutsche Bundesbahn , Edmund Frohne , was involved in the traffic planning . An international architecture competition was announced for the reception building , which was won by the German architect Hans Kleinschmidt . However, his designs were never fully implemented, rather later changed by other architects. The foundations for the station building were laid before the Second World War , but construction came to a standstill when Greece entered the war. Air strikes in the 1940s did not damage the infrastructure, but hampered project development for 15 years. The old station to the south, built in 1872, remained in operation . After 1958, the Greek architects Molfesi and Papagianni took over the construction. The first trains started running on June 12, 1961. In the first few years, the station was only used by long-distance traffic. After renovation and expansion work, local trains have been running there since 2007 under the Proastiakos brand .
Work on the connection to the subway, which is under construction, has been in progress since 2014. However, the construction work was delayed considerably due to significant archaeological finds, so that regular operation can be expected in the 2020s at the earliest.
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The terminus is in an elevated position and has seven platform tracks, six on three central platforms and one on the main platform, as well as two sidings. The platforms are reached via a tunnel, the station building is parallel to the tracks to the south.
The station is one of the busiest train stations in Greece .
The routes Piraeus – Athens – Larisa – Thessaloniki , Thessaloniki – Serres – Drama – Alexandroupolis (–Ormenio), Thessaloniki – Idomeni and –Promachonas begin and end here.
Transport links
The train station is connected to the regional bus station and Thessaloniki airport via a bus line, and several city bus lines stop here. The connection through the Thessaloniki Metro is under construction.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ New Railway Station, Thessaloniki at rail.cc.de
- ↑ Heinz Kurz: The VT 10.5 series . Freiburg 2016. ISBN 978-3-8446-6025-8 , p. 121.
- ↑ Thessaloniki train station