This is a list of rail accidents in Greece.
Accident | Date | Killed | Injured | Description | |
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Corinth rail disaster | 34[1] | 150 | Two passenger trains carrying people returning to Athens after voting in their home towns in the constitutional referendum of 1968 collided near Derveni, Corinth, killing 34 people and injuring 150. | ||
Kryoneri train crash | 5[2] | ? | Two passenger trains, a railcar and a commercial train collide, five dead, including the railcar driver. | ||
Orfana rail disaster | 21[3] | 40 | At around 16:45,[4] a breakdown in communication between the corresponding stationmasters at Doxaras and Orfana caused an express train and a military relief train to collide in bad weather on the single track line. The southbound diesel hauled Acropolis Express and northbound Number 121 Athens-Thessaloniki, (known as posta) were allowed to proceed[5] without first allowing a passing loop. Twenty-one people died, and more than 40 were injured.[6] [7] Nikolaos Gekas,[8] the stationmaster at Orfana was sentenced to five years for his part in the disaster.[9] [10] [11] In the same year, Yiannis Ritsos wrote the tragedy-related song "Ide kai de", composed by Nikos Mamagakis and performed by Yiannis Poulopoulos.[12] | ||
Platania accident | 4 | 57 | A train derailed and overturned outside the village of Platania, Drama, killing four and injuring 57 passengers.[13] | ||
Tithorea 1994 accident | 5 | 0 | IC derailment from Athens to Volos, killing five.[14] | ||
Orestiada accident | 1 | 0 | A train became stuck in a snow drift and derailed near the Bulgarian border in temperatures that fell to −20°C.[15] | ||
Kilkis accident | 1 | 0 | A truck driver was struck by a train and killed after ignoring warnings at a crossing.[16] | ||
Chryso 2006 accident | 2 | 18 | Two dead and 18 injured in a collision between a train and an agricultural vehicle that had stopped on the railway tracks. The driver of the car and a passenger were killed. [15] | ||
Larissa 2008 accident | 0 | 28[17] | An Alexandroupolis-bound[18] InterCity train derailed 2km (01miles) outside Larissa. Initial reports indicated human error when the station master failed to change the points after a previous train had passed through the station, causing five carriages from the passenger train to jump the tracks. The two drivers of the derailed train were taken in for questioning, and the station master fled the scene. | ||
Achladokampos 2010 collision | 1 | 0 | One person was killed in a derailment on the Nafplio-Argos-Tripoli line.[19] | ||
Kryoneri crash | 2 | 2 | A car, in which an elderly couple were riding, is hit at an unmanned level crossing by an Intercity train after becoming trapped on the line. Two are killed.[20] | ||
Lianokladi 2013 collision | 0 | 2[21] | Shortly after 10:30 a.m., a train collided with a large animal on the tracks shortly after passing Asopos, causing one of the cars to derail. The driver and a passenger were slightly injured. | ||
Chryso 2016 accident | 2 | ? | A shifter collided with a Unimog line motor vehicle, resulting in the death of the two occupants of the Unimog.[22] | ||
Adendro train derailment | 3 | 10 | An Intercity passenger train, with 70 passengers onboard, derailed and collided with a house in Adendro. The reason for the accident was determined to have been excessive speed. Three dead, the driver, the traffic supervisor and a passenger.[23] [24] | ||
Larissa 2018 accident | 0 | 2[25] | A Stylida-bound train derailed at Larissa station. The train left the tracks and collided with a wall of a building as it entered the station. Initial reports indicate an unknown person or persons in the control room had switched the points sending the train straight into the building.[26] This raised the issue of rail safety in Greece.[27] | ||
Kalochori 2018 accident | 1 | 0 | An agricultural tractor driven by an 84-year-old citizen collided at the height of Kalochori, Serres, with a passenger train running the Alexandroupolis - Thessaloniki route, resulting in the fatal injury of the 84-year-old.[28] | ||
Xanthi 2019 accident | 1 | 0 | A train hit and killed a person.[29] [30] | ||
Diavata 2019 accident | 1 | 1 | A collision between a train and a passenger car at an unguarded crossing, one person was killed and another injured.[31] [32] | ||
Tempi train crash | 57+ | 100+ | A delayed InterCity passenger train travelling from Athens to Thessaloniki collided head-on with an intermodal train going the opposite way on the same stretch of track with both partially derailing near Larissa. With at least 57 dead, 80 injured and others unaccounted for, it is the worst railway disaster in the history of railways in Greece.[33] It has been attributed to human error. |