Athens railway station (Greek: Σιδηροδρομικός Σταθμός Αθηνών, romanized: Sidirodromikós Stathmós Athinón) is the main railway station of Athens, and the second largest station in Greece. Located in the central quarter of Kolonos, it resulted from the merger of the city's two main railway terminals—the Larissa Station (Σταθμός Λαρίσης, Stathmós Larísis) of the Piraeus–Platy railway towards central and northern Greece, and the Peloponnese Station (Σταθμός Πελοποννήσου, Stathmós Peloponnísou) of the Piraeus–Patras railway that formerly linked Athens with the Peloponnese. It is still colloquially known as Larissa Station,[3] which is also the name of the adjacent Metro station.

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Αθήνα Athina Σταθμός Λαρίσης Larissa Station
View of the station building, January 2019
General information
Location	Domokou Avenue, Kolonos Athens, Greece
Coordinates	37°59′32.24″N 23°43′14″E
Owned by	GAIAOSE[1]
Line(s)	Piraeus–Platy railway
Platforms	6 (3 operational)
Tracks	10 (4 operational)
Train operators	Hellenic Train
Construction
Platform levels	2
Parking	Yes
Bicycle facilities	No
Disabled access
Other information
Status	Staffed
Fare zone	1
Website	https://www.ose.gr/en/
History
Opened	8 March 1904
Electrified	25 kV AC, 50 Hz (2017)[2]
Services
Preceding station Athens Metro Following station Attiki towards Anthoupoli Line 2 Metaxourghio towards Elliniko Preceding station Proastiakos Following station Rouf towards Piraeus Line 1 Agioi Anargyroi towards Athens Airport Line 2 Agioi Anargyroi towards Kiato Terminus Line 3 Agioi Anargyroi towards Chalcis Preceding station Hellenic Train Following station Terminus Regional Acharnes (SKA) towards Leianokladi Express Acharnes (SKA) towards Kalambaka InterCity Acharnes (SKA) towards Thessaloniki InterCity Express Thebes towards Thessaloniki
Location

Line structure
Legend
to SKA/Thessaloniki to Piraeus

History

Inaugurated in 1904, the station was named after the city of Larissa, then the northernmost city of the Kingdom of Greece and the one nearest the northern terminus of the standard-gauge Piraeus–Papapouli railway.[3] The adjacent Peloponnese Station, inaugurated on 30 June 1884, was served by the metre-gauge Piraeus–Patras railway to the Peloponnese.

In 2003, the Hellenic Railways Organisation (OSE) launched Proastiakos as a subsidiary responsible for the establishment of a suburban rail network in the Athens metropolitan area for the 2004 Summer Olympics. Peloponnese Station was closed on 7 August 2005, along with the metre-gauge line between Piraeus and Agioi Anargyroi. Its services were transferred to Larissa Station upon the opening of the Proastiakos line to Corinth on 27 September 2005.[4][5] In 2005, TrainOSE was created as a brand within OSE to concentrate on rail services and passenger interface. In 2008, all Proastiakos were transferred from OSE to TrainOSE.

The final service departed the unmodernized Larissa Station on 4 June 2017, before it was closed for various upgrades including the installation of a railway electrification system.[2] The upgraded station was reopened on 30 July 2017.[6] The Athens Metro station, inaugurated on 28 January 2000, lies underground and is served by Line 2 between Anthoupoli and Elliniko. In July 2022, the station began being served by Hellenic Train, the rebranded TrainOSE.[7]

Facilities

The station comprises a large, two-floor building in central Athens. Three platforms and four tracks are currently in use. A second phase of upgrades is underway, including the construction of new tracks and platforms, a central underpass connecting all platforms and the metro station, additional pedestrian underpasses and overpasses, building restoration works and an overhaul of road traffic surrounding the station.[8] In the meantime, trains will continue to use the platforms and tracks built during the previous upgrade, located where the goods yard of the old Peloponnese Station once stood.[9]

Services

The station is served by the following lines of the Athens Metro:

• Line 2

The station is served by the following lines of the Athens suburban railway:[10]

Line 1 Piraeus – Airport

Line 2 Piraeus – Kiato

Line 3 Athens – Chalcis

Line 5 Aigio – Athens

The station is served the following Hellenic Train services:

• Regional services (1510, 1511) to Leianokladi
• Express services (884, 885) to Kalambaka
• InterCity/InterCity Express services to Thebes and Thessaloniki (8 trains per day)

During the twentieth century, especially in the first half, Athens station was the terminus for some international trains, such as an Express to Berlin (departing from the former Anhalter Bahnhof) or the "Arlberg"[11] route of the Orient Express (London-Athens via Paris-Zürich-Vienna-Budapest-Belgrade-Skopje), in service until 1962 and then of the Direct Orient Express (Paris-Lausanne-Venice-Ljubljana-Zagreb-Belgrade-Skopje) until 1976.[12]

Gallery

• 
  View of the station with metre gauge and normal gauge rails, 1979.
• 
  A Proastiakos DMU at the station in 2005, before electrification in 2017.
• 
  An Alstom first-generation EMU at the metro station, 2010.
• 
  The heritage-listed building of the now closed Peloponnese Station, 2007.

See also

• Hellenic Railways Organisation
• Hellenic Train
• New Thessaloniki Railway Station
• P.A.Th.E./P.
• Proastiakos
• Proastiakos Athens
• Railways of Greece

References

External links

• Athens railway station - National Railway Network Greek Travel Pages

Media related to Athens Larissa Station at Wikimedia Commons

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