Classic route
Proastiakos Patras Π1
Patras (Agios Andreas) → Kato Achaia · Greece
- Distance
- 20 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 35 min
- Average speed
- 34 km/h
- Operator
- Hellenic Train
- Train
- Stadler GTW 4500 metre-gauge railcar
- Countries
- Greece
- In service since
- 2020
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
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.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 11748537 — 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 2 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 0.2 km from the shape of R 11352 (Zug-Nr. 11352)
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Read more on Wikipedia (in EL) ↗
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