Patras railway station

Patras railway station
Patras railway station , view from the railway tracks (2018)
Location Patras
Greece
Coordinates 38°14′59″N 21°44′06″E / 38.2498°N 21.7351°E / 38.2498; 21.7351Coordinates: 38°14′59″N 21°44′06″E / 38.2498°N 21.7351°E / 38.2498; 21.7351
Owned by OSE
Line(s) Piraeus–Patras railway and
Patras–Kyparissia railway
Platforms 2 side platforms
Tracks 2
Train operators TrainOSE
Construction
Structure type at grade
Platform levels 1
Parking No
Other information
Website http://www.ose.gr/en/ (Hellenic Railways Organization)
History
Opened 1954
Electrified No

Patras railway station[1] (Greek: Σιδηροδρομικός Σταθμός Πατρών, Sidirodromikos Stathmos Patron) is a railway station in Patras in northern Peloponnese, Greece. The station is located in the centre of the city beside the north port. The station was built in 1954 and until 2011 it was serving as the main railway station for trains connecting Patras with Athens and Kalamata. Since the suspension of all the rail service in the Peloponnese[2][3] in 2011 (due to construction works for the new railway line Athens-Corinth-Patras) the station is used only by local suburban trains[4] connecting the city with the adjacent villages of Rio and Agios Vasileios. The station is also the starting point of OSE Bus Line Patras-Kiato, which connects Patras Railway Station with Diakopto as well as with Kiato railway station, where a train connection with Corinth and Athens is available.

Station building

The station lies in central Patras between Othonos-Amalias Avenue and the north port. It is a small building, typical of the 1950s without any modern facilities. Beside the station there is a restaurant and a cafeteria. There is only one platform and two metre gauge rail tracks. After the completion of the new railway line[5] the station will move to another more spacious building but still there are no publicly available data regarding the location and the architectural design of the new station.

Within a few meters distance from the station there is the Patras Railway Museum open air showroom[6] which hosts a very old locomotive of the Piraeus, Athens and Peloponnese Railways (SPAP) No. Zs 7.532 [7] [8]

References

  1. ↑ Patras central railway station, patrasinfo.gr
  2. ↑
  3. ↑ Naftemporiki (23 December 2010). "ΤΡΑΙΝΟΣΕ: Διακοπή δρομολογίων και αύξηση κομίστρων". Naftemporiki.gr. Retrieved 18 August 2017.
  4. ↑ Video of the metric gauge suburban railway of Patras (2018)
  5. ↑ Rion-New port of Patras new railway line project information, ERGOSE official website (2018)
  6. ↑ Patras Railway Museum Showroom, OSE official website
  7. ↑ The revamped old locomotive of OSE at Patras (05/12/2016) (in Greek)
  8. ↑ Video of the painting of the old locomotive, thebest.gr (02/11/2016)
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