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ATHENS - The process to get high speed trains operating from Athens to Greece's second-largest city of Thessaloniki, a key northern port, is taking even longer than the train now takes to get between them. The fourth train of Italian rail operator Trainose’s high-speed trains on its way to Greece
Germany will become the first country in Europe to put hydrogen passenger trains into commercial operation in March 2022. The European railways are putting the rails of the future on track, as 23 hydrogen trains have already been built by the French Alstom at its plant in Germany, have received all the necessary approvals. Italy and France are following in the same footsteps, while Britain and Spain have already shown interest. But will hydrogen trains also get a ticket for Greece? The discussion has been opened between Alstom, Trenitalia of the Italian group FSI – to which TRAINOSE belongs...
Alstom has delivered the first of five ETR470 Pendolino trains to TRAINOSE, marking the arrival of high-speed trains in Greece.
Alstom delivers first refurbished ETR470 Pendolino train and modernised depot to TRAINOSE 20 January 2021 – The first ETR470 Pendolino train upgraded by Alstom has arrived in Thessaloniki, marking the arrival of high-speed trains in Greece. This is part of a project implemented by TRAINOSE - the main rail transport provider in Greece - in which Alstom is to provide depot modernisation and corrective maintenance for the five trains that will constitute the country’s first fleet of high-speed trains. The two contracts, signed in March 2020 for depot modernisation and in June 2020 for mainte...
Athens News Agency ATHENS -- The first of the five first generation trains under the name White Arrow that brings TRAINOSE to Greece will arrive in Thessaloniki from Italy on January 18. The first trip with passengers will be held on the route Athens-Thessaloniki on March 25 on the occasion of the 200-year anniversary from the Greek Revolution against the Ottoman Rule in 1821. As the company's CEO Professor Filippos Tsalidis said to the Athens Macedonian News Agency, the new trains that can travel with up to 200 km speed will be delivered gradually to the Greek railway network after...