Double-track railway from Piraeus to Thessaloniki in 11 months, minister says

A double-track railway enactment connecting Piraeus to Thessaloniki will beryllium implicit successful 11 months, Deputy Transport Minister Konstantinos Kyranakis told the 8th ITC 2025 Infrastructure and Transport Conference connected Wednesday.

Kyranakis said operator training connected the European Train Control System (ETCS) will statesman soon, aiming to instrumentality an automatic braking system. He added that caller information measures will alteration train monitoring with centimeter-level precision from an operations center.

Efforts to strengthen the workforce astatine Hellenic Railways are besides underway, with 300 applications from Greeks overseas presently under review, the lawman curate said. “This is simply a unique accidental for Greek railways to get expertise from abroad,” Kyranakis said.

He added that information and rider acquisition stay top priorities, while upgrades to stations successful Athens and Thessaloniki, improvements to the suburban obstruction web and further web enlargement are successful progress.

Kyranakis besides said that Levante Trains, a recently established Greek railway company, has shown involvement successful launching operations successful the western Peloponnese.