Classic route
Evros Line
Alexandroupoli → Ormenio · Greece
- Distance
- 174 km
- Fastest time
- 2 h 29 min
- Average speed
- 70 km/h
- Operator
- Hellenic Train ↗
- Train
- Hellenic Train DMU
- Countries
- Greece
- In service since
- 1874
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Two and a half hours up the Evros with Turkey out of the right-hand window the whole way, on a line the Oriental Railway opened in 1874 and a border drawn across it in 1923.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 14122315 — 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 5 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Hellenic Train — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
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