Classic route
Proastiakos
Piraeus → Aigio · Greece
Proastiakos in pictures
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- Distance
- 197 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 2 h 20 min
- Average speed
- 84 km/h
- Top speed
- 160 km/h
- Operator
- Hellenic Train
- Train
- Siemens Desiro (460)
- Countries
- Greece
- In service since
- 2005
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
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.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from 2 OpenStreetMap relations, their own nodes end to end: relation 8467515 (121 km), relation 12423298 (65 km) — 187 km of the route between them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 4 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of R 1308 (Zug-Nr. 1308)
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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