Amazing to see the station of Leptokaria!! I was there in 1967. (Really) 12 years old, on holidays with my parents. Later I came back, must have been about 1974. The station has not changed a bit.
It's Greece a.k.a Bangladesh. Everything is half done. No pride in work no pride in looking after the environment. No.ones takes any pride in their jobs. Dissapointing. Such a beautiful country.
accident locos (IC62 pax 120-023 at 7:50, 8:18, 12:48, 17:12 and driver Koutsoubas at 25:45) (freight loco #2 120-012 at 0:49, 32:48 sometime before the Tempi accident was painted in blue color)
Thanks for all the rail movement in Greece. All the scenery is spectacular as well. It just saddens me the amount of graffiti all over the beautiful carriages. Love the tortoise/turtle?? as well. Hope he/she never got run over.
Tempe head on collision 2023. The freight train was illegally transporting xylene, which caused the massive fireball. The government claims there was no xylene and that the explosion was caused by fluids from the surviving engine. The wagons with the xylene were flattened. The company claims there were 13 wagons but the photos show 14. All the wreckage and wagons were immediately removed from the scene of the collision, they dug up, dumped the soil and poured asphalt to eliminate the tracks. Xylene is used to adulterate fuel and to make ammunition. Apparently there is a mafia behind it that controls the government.
Amazingly done! Thank you for visiting my country and sharing this great video, Dusan! I hope you enjoyed Leptokaria and other places you visited and that you liked our trains, which could look better, of course. Now that FS Trenitalia has acquired Trainose us all, Greek trainspotters hope for better and more interesting developments. I hope to see you at the last runs we will do for the closure of the historical Tithorea - Lianokladi route, in the next three months.
I read somewhere that two Etr 470 are about to be sent to Greece (with a new livery suitable for the new service, they are going to be modified for the 25 kv line). In theory there should be 5 Etr 470 (i've read that two of them will be used for the spare parts) and some Etr 485 (Etr 485 can reach 250 km/h, Etr 470 has 200 Km/h as maximum speed)
5:32 A sign in the form of two crossed boards at route traffic lights seems to mean that they are not working. I think that moving in such conditions at speeds of 100+ km / h is too dangerous.
Awesome video as always! I didn't know Greece had such a nice railway. Fast service with modern rolling stock and from what I can gather most of the network is electrified. The majority of the railway seems to be double track with a lot of stations. The only thing negative that I can see is how every single train is covered in disgusting graffity.
Thank you. The Greece Railways have modern vehicles and speeds, but the infrastructure is not exactly the best. There are major problems with stealing railway property.
The high - speed railway line (with electrification) is between the 3 major cities of Greece and the connection to FYROM and Bulagria [Patras - Athens - Thessaloniki - Eidomeni (FYROM)]. In this section the 2/3 is double proper high speed double line and the rest 1/3 is under construction (Patras - Athens, Tithorea - Domokos). The other lines are high speed but with not electification. There are local narrow gauge lines across Greece, but the most of them are not operational. The most known is the "Odontontos" line, which is a rack railway between Diakopto - Kalavrita.
Wow thanks for sharing man. My father is a train driver working for trainose. I've shown this video to him and said to me that he might be driving one of those, the blue electric ones 😁😁
In Athens all Desiro's and Stadler raibusses are nice and clean(lucky me)..Some time ago it was the opposite..We hope that the Italians of FS who bought trainose will clean all this disgusting crap from the trains..Anyway thanks for visit us.Nice speedy shots..Allthought you missed the alco diesel sounding MLW's at work and the scenic mountain single line between Lamia and Domokos :P There is the real thing ;)
It's a shame that almost all wagons are graffitied and very similar with ours at Serbian Railways. I know about the mountain section from Lamia to Domokos. I plan to visit this region for the next time when I'm in Greece. Thanks for the nice words :)
dulevoz The half of the section Tihorea - Domokos (the Tithorea - Lamia part) is going to be relpaced with a proper high-speed rail line in a few months!
entertaining and well shot. and i appreciate the hills you climb and the chances you take. seems dangerous to stand on a high speed mainline. freight trains only at night?
3:33 Looks like that turtle would be saying, "Ah-dup-dup-duppa-duh duh. What was THAT! Doop-doop-dooooop. That's just too fast for me...what ever it was". 29:18 A Greek Orthodox minister exits the train.
Nice Video. Would like to get something more to know about Greek railways and railways system. Maybe you could tell us more about it in a video to come? Would appreciate that.
This locomotives are siemens hellas sprinter. They have the power of 6700HP.They not carry many wagons because here in greece people don't use so much the train. 6 carrigies are enough
Amazing how the Greeks have electrified most of their railway and here in the UK we still have any mainlines running under old diesel trains. I guess Greece sees their railway as a national asset but we see it as a national burden!
It seems to you that in the Balkans and in Greece everything abouth railway is as great as it seems at first glance. In Greece, they do not yet have a complete electrified railway line between Thessaloniki and Athens. Diesel locomotives on one section still carry trains. There are also huge problems with theft at railway infrastructure, which are not present in England.
Same in Denmark. Only half of our railway is electrified despite the small size of the country and old diesel trains from the 80s are still in use but we also have newer and some brand new diesel trains though like IC3, the not so good IC4, new Coradia Lints as well as some older electrical trains from the 90s called IR4. Denmark is way behind the rest of Scandinavia in this field and it´s becomming a joke.
Have you seen the railways network map? Greece has a small, a really small rsylway system. It was easy to electrify. Yet, it's not complete, covering only the north-south line
Horn sound like Swan, sweet. Beautiful video liked the train and the beautiful landscape. Are the Diesel locomotive trailing behind the electric loco hauling the freight kept working or is it switched off? I see most freight in here with diesel locomotive trailing an electric locomotive.
Thank you. Diesel locomotives in this video are switched off. They are used for traction of freight trains on non-electrified part of railway line between Domokos and Athens.
Super quality as always! LMAO over the mystery star, the tortoise! A bit sad that every train is covered in graffiti perhaps reflecting the beaten-down state if the Greek psyche. Reminds me of the '70s-'80s NYC subway.
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Greece and Ireland were bailed out by Troika about 2008 / 2010 and I see that Greece have rapid Electric trains traveling at 160Kph while Irelands' fastest trains travel at up to Max of 100 Kph... What did Ireland do with the €65Billions we got ??? AND Ireland has ZERO Electrified Trains. and limited Double lines on Main Lines ? ... P.S. I think I saw a Steam train last month ??
Do you know when the new Pendolinos high speed trains will enter in service? I know TrainOSE was going to buy them because Trenitalia lended them some sets to try, but I don't know anything else.
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