Classic route
Proastiakos Patras Π2
Patras (Agios Andreas) → Rio · Greece
- Distance
- 8 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 15 min
- Average speed
- 32 km/h
- Operator
- Hellenic Train
- Train
- Stadler GTW 4500 metre-gauge railcar
- Countries
- Greece
- In service since
- 2010
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
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.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 1769849 — 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 under 100 m from the shape of R 11303 (Zug-Nr. 11303)
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Read more on Wikipedia (in EL) ↗
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