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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.
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]
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]
There is an Athens Metro station close to the bus station, known as Kato Patisia in Line 1.There are a lot of taxis outside the terminal. Also there are a lot of bus routes that connect Athens city centre to the bus station, as well as a line that connects the airport with the Kifisos bus terminal which is the bus terminal for Peloponnese, Macedonia, Epirus, Thrace and the Ionian islands.
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 OSE to run through services to Volos from Athens and Thessaloniki. Volos station was converted to dual gauge in order to accommodate trains of the two branches. Parts of the station and the ...
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.
Athens Suburban Railway Line A3 between Athens and Chalcis, with up to one train every two hours, and one extra train during the peak hours. [22] Line A4 trains running between Piraeus and Kiato do not call at this station. [21] [23] The station is also served by local and regional buses: