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Train routes operated by Hellenic Train
12 routes · classic 8 · scenic 2 · heritage 1 · mountain 1
Hellenic Train runs 12 of the routes in the World Train Map atlas, 1,621 km of railway across 1 country. The longest is the Hellenic InterCity at 481 km; the fastest is the Hellenic InterCity, running up to 200 km/h; the oldest line it runs over here opened in 1883.
The company itself dates to 2005, filed on Wikidata as a railway undertaking. What this page says about the company comes from Hellenic Train's own Wikidata item, checked against the countries its routes here actually cross before any of it is used; everything about the railway is counted from this atlas. Official site ↗ · Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata Q7832852 ↗
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- 12
- Total length
- 1,621 km
- Countries
- Greece
- Fastest
- Hellenic InterCity · 200 km/h
- Longest
- Hellenic InterCity · 481 km
- Oldest line here
- 1883
- Company founded
- 2005
- Type
- railway undertaking
Classic (8)
- Hellenic InterCity
Past Thermopylae and under Mount Olympus. Greece’s spine line, now run by tilting Italian arrows.
Wikipedia ↗ - Thrace InterCity
Greece’s only train across Thrace: 440 km laid in 1896 for the Salonika–Constantinople railway, threading the Nestos gorge between Drama and Xanthi.
Wikipedia ↗ - Proastiakos
Athens’s fast electric suburban line skirts the Saronic Gulf and crosses the Corinth Canal on its run from the port of Piraeus out to Kiato — and since 2020 on along the Gulf of Corinth to Aigio.
Wikipedia ↗ - Thessaloniki–Florina
West on the 1894 Salonika–Monastir line: orchard country past Veroia, Edessa of the waterfalls, then the high lakes plateau to Florina.
Wikipedia ↗ - Athens–Chalkida
Athens’s other suburban artery: up the mainline past Oinoi, then the 1904 branch down to the Euripus strait at Chalkida, the gateway to Evia.
Wikipedia ↗ - Proastiakos Airport Line
Port to plane on one ticket: from Piraeus through central Athens, then east along the Attiki Odos motorway median to the airport at Spata.
Wikipedia ↗ - Proastiakos Patras Π1
West out of Patras on the old metre-gauge Pyrgos line, running the beach villages of the Achaean coast to Kato Achaia, which got its trains back in February 2020.
Wikipedia (EL) ↗ - Proastiakos Patras Π2
Eight metre-gauge kilometres north along the Gulf of Patras to Rio, under the cables of the Rio–Antirrio bridge, on track reopened for the suburban in July 2010.
Wikipedia (EL) ↗
Scenic (2)
- Palaiofarsalos–Kalambaka
The branch to the monasteries in the sky: from the junction at Palaiofarsalos across the Thessalian plain to Kalambaka, beneath the sandstone pillars of Meteora. Athens trains connect here — no through service runs.
Wikipedia ↗ - Katakolo–Olympia Train
Greece’s first provincial railway (1882–83) reborn as a cruise shuttle: a metre-gauge railcar links Katakolo’s quay with the sanctuary of Ancient Olympia.
Wikipedia (EL) ↗
Heritage (1)
- Pelion Railway
Evaristo de Chirico’s 600 mm mountain railway on Mt Pelion curls over his iron-and-stone bridge near Milies through olive and apple groves.
Wikipedia ↗
Mountain (1)
- Odontotos Rack Railway
An 1896 rack line climbs 700 m up the sheer Vouraikos gorge to Kalavryta, through tunnels and along ledges cut above the torrent.
Wikipedia ↗
Photos via Wikimedia Commons — each route page credits the author & licence
How many train routes does Hellenic Train run?
12 of the routes in this atlas are Hellenic Train services, covering 1,621 km across 1 country (Greece). That is what this atlas draws, not the operator's whole network — a national railway runs thousands of local services no map of notable journeys would list.
What is the fastest Hellenic Train train?
The Hellenic InterCity, Athens to Thessaloniki, at up to 200 km/h. Its fastest scheduled run takes ≈ 4 h over 481 km.
Does Hellenic Train run night trains?
Not in this atlas. All 12 Hellenic Train routes listed here are daytime services.
When was Hellenic Train founded?
Wikidata records the company's inception as 2005, and files it as a railway undertaking. The oldest railway it runs over in this atlas opened in 1883 — the line and the company are rarely the same age, and this page dates both.
Countries Hellenic Train runs in
- 🇬🇷 Train routes in Greece 12 routes