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The new spacious bus station is going to have a surface of 66,400 m 2 (715,000 sq ft) and will serve 15 million passengers annually. The new station will be next to Eleonas Metro stop on Line 3 providing connecting access to central Athens, Piraeus port and Athens International Airport.
Construction of the metre-gauge railway began in 1882, and the line was inaugurated on 22 April 1884 as part of the private-owned company Thessaly Railways. [3] The project was designed and led by Italian-born Evaristo de Chirico, father of the famous painter Giorgio de Chirico, and Greek banker Theodoros Mavrogordatos.
In 1960 the line from Larissa to Volos was converted to standard gauge and connected through Larissa to the mainline from Athens to Thessaloniki, allowing through services to Volos from Athens and Thessaloniki. The new railway station was inaugurated on 26 August 1962 [12] at a cost of cost 6,500,000 drachmas (€19.075.58 as of 2022). [7]
In May 2022, INTRAKAT was given the go-ahead for the €82.890.000 electrification and signalling upgrades of the Larissa–Volos line, due for completion in 2025. [7] In July 2022, the station began being served by Hellenic Train , the rebranded TranOSE.
The new line extended from Volos station through Volos city centre (as a tramway) to Agria (1892), reaching Ano Lechonia in 1896 and Mileai (Milies) in 1903. In 1955 Thessaly Railways was absorbed into Hellenic State Railways (SEK). [8]
Line 1 (the Green Line) serves 24 stations, and forms the oldest line of the Athens metro network. Runs from Piraeus station to Kifissia station and covers a distance of 25.6-kilometre (15.9 mi). There are also transfer connections with the Blue (line 3) at Monastiraki and Piraeus station and with Red (line 2) at Omonia and Attiki stations.
The trunk routes were created in 1995 as part of an attempt to create a bus rapid transit system in Athens. They actually were renamings of existing routes in order to have a common special numbering based letters and a common number when using the same street to exit the city centre.
Map showing the Greek railway system c.1901–1902. Rail transport in Greece has a history which began in 1869, with the completion of the then Athens & Piraeus Railway. From the 1880s to the 1920s, the majority of the network was built, reaching its heyday in 1940.