Classic route
Thessaloniki–Florina
Thessaloniki → Florina · Greece
- Distance
- 196 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 3 h 5 min
- Average speed
- 64 km/h
- Operator
- Hellenic Train
- Train
- Hellenic Train regional
- Countries
- Greece
- In service since
- 1894
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
West on the 1894 Salonika–Monastir line: orchard country past Veroia, Edessa of the waterfalls, then the high lakes plateau to Florina.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 11279623 — 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
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 1.7 km from the shape of R 731 (Zug-Nr. 731)
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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