Hellenic Railways Organisation

The damage caused to the railway network from Domokos station to Krannonas, about 10 kilometers outside Larissa, stretches, according to reports, for about 50 km.

Hellenic Railways (OSE) CEO Panagiotis Terzakis said the damage is to the tracks, light signals on power poles, stations and the infrastructure network in general.

Just 10 months before the deadly railway collision at Tempe, central Greece, on February 28, the European Public Prosecutor's Office initiated an inquiry, which culminated in a 106-page indictment.

The Greek branch of the European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO) is sending its case files to the Greek Parliament regarding a 2014 contract for the completion of key infrastructural works on the national railway, it was reported on Friday.

The former president of the Hellenic Railways Organisation (OSE) appeared before an appellate-level examining magistrate in Larissa on Monday as part of the ongoing investigation into the tragic rail accident at Tempe that claimed the lives of 57 individuals on February 28.

The former president of Hellenic Railways (OSE) and two members of the board that recommended the promotion to stationmaster of the official on duty on the night of the Tempe railway disaster are to face criminal charges for breach of duty, state broadcaster ERT has reported.

A contractor stationmaster working for Hellenic Railways was conditionally released on Monday after testifying about his role in a February 28 rail disaster that claimed 57 lives.

The stationmaster will have to appear at his local police station and is banned from leaving the country.

Trains and the suburban rail service, which had stopped after the deadly accident in northern Greece on February 28, resume on Wednesday.

The first train is expected to depart from Larissa station at 4.45 a.m. on the Athens-Oinoi route. The new CEO of Hellenic Railways (OSE), Panagiotis Terezakis, will board the train.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has told train company representatives that the restructuring of the country's railways "is not just a universal demand of Greek society but is now also a personal matter for him."

For years, the unionists of state-owned Hellenic Railways Organization (OSE) have been warning about the lack of safety on the railway network. Was anyone listening? They were right, but unfortunately it has become very difficult to tell when unionism is serious and when it is partisan, and because it is usually the latter, we close our ears.

A 2021 study by the National Transparency Authority details a "maelstrom" of errors and delays in restoring signaling on the Greek rail network.