Athens Railway Station

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"Athens Larissa Station" redirects here. For the station in the city of Larissa, see Larissa railway station.

Σταθμός Λαρίσης-Αθήνα
Larissa Station-Athens

View of the station building

Station statistics

Address

Domokou Avenue, Kolonos
Athens, Greece

Coordinates

37°59′32.24″N 23°43′14″E / 37.9922889°N 23.72056°ECoordinates: 37°59′32.24″N 23°43′14″E / 37.9922889°N 23.72056°E

Line(s)

Piraeus–Platy railway

Connections

Structure type

At Grade

Levels

Platforms

Tracks

Parking

yes

Other information

Opened

8 March 1904

Owned by

OSE

Services

Preceding station	Athens Metro	Following station
Attiki towards Anthoupoli	Line 2	Metaxourghio towards Elliniko
Preceding station	Proastiakos	Following station
Rouf towards Piraeus	Piraeus – Chalcis	Agioi Anargyroi towards Chalcis
Preceding station	TrainOSE	Following station
Terminus	TrainOSE	Acharnes (SKA) toward Thessaloniki

Athens Railway Station (Greek: Σιδηροδρομικός Σταθμός Αθήνας, Sidirodromikós Stathmós Athinón) is the main railway station of Athens, the capital city of Greece. It is located in the central quarter of Kolonos. It resulted from the merger of the city's two main railway terminals, the Larissa Station of the Piraeus–Platy railway line towards central and northern Greece, and of the Peloponnese Station (Greek: Σταθμός Πελοποννήσου, Stathmós Peloponnísou) of the Piraeus–Patras railway line linking Athens with the southern Peloponnese peninsula. The station is still colloquially known as "Larissa Station", which is also the name of a Metro station there.

History

Inaugurated on 29 June 1904, the station was named after the city of Larissa, as the southern terminal of the line to the Thessalian city and Thessaloniki. The older adjacent station, Stathmós Peloponnísou (Σταθμός Πελοποννήσου, 37°59′22.6″N 23°43′9.52″E / 37.989611°N 23.7193111°E / 37.989611; 23.7193111), was inaugurated on 30 June 1884, named after the Peloponnese peninsula due to its services to the region. Closed on 7 August 2005, along with the Piraeus-Agioi Anargyroi line, its activities since then moved to the Stathmos Larissis.^[1] Regarding the metro station, part of the Line 2, it's an underground stop inaugurated on 28 January 2000.

Structure

Larissa Station has a large two-floors building, in front of a square Domokou avenue, in which there are some platforms for bus services. It counts 2 platforms and 3 tracks but, starting from the first 2000s, it is under reconstruction for modernization and enlargement: the station will be improved with 12 tracks and 7 platforms and the line electrified.^[2] Construction of the new platforms and tracks, located where it was the goods yard of Peloponnese station, is almost complete.

Traffic

About urban transport, the station is served by Athens Metro and by the "Proastiakos" (a service of TrainOSE) suburban line Piraeus-Ano Liosia; that links it, not directly, to the International Airport Elefthérios Venizélos.

It is also served by several regional trains serving Attica and also by some InterCity, mainly to Patras and Thessaloniki (Neós Stathmós). Along the 20th century, mainly in the first half, Athens station was the terminal of some international trains, as an Express to/from Berlin (departing from the former Anhalter Bahnhof) or the "Arlberg"^[3] route of the Orient Express (London-Athens via Paris-Zürich-Vienna-Budapest-Belgrade-Skopje), in service still 1962.^[4]

Gallery

View of station platforms in 1979
A Proastiakos suburban train at the station
Metro station
Building of "Peloponnisou" station

References

External links

Media related to Athens Larissa Station at Wikimedia Commons

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