Greece: accident report reveals chronic pathologies of Greek railways
Image: Shutterstock. Ververidis Vasilis
The Greek railway network lacks basic safety and communication elements such as signalling, ETCS and GSM-R. In addition, rail traffic on sections of the central Greek rail axis is controlled manually and regionally by employees who are often undertrained. These factors appear to have contributed substantially to the fatal train accident in Tempi Valley, Greece.
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