Classic route
Hellenic InterCity
Athens → Thessaloniki · Greece
Hellenic InterCity in pictures
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- Distance
- 481 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 4 h
- Average speed
- 120 km/h
- Top speed
- 200 km/h
- Operator
- Hellenic Train
- Train
- ETR 470 “White Arrow”
- Countries
- Greece
- In service since
- 1916
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Past Thermopylae and under Mount Olympus. Greece’s spine line, now run by tilting Italian arrows.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 7363387 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 7 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of IC 56
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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