Αθήνα Athina Σταθμός Λαρίσης Larissa Station
View of the station building, January 2019
General information
Location	Domokou Avenue,Kolonos Athens Greece
Coordinates	37°59′32.24″N23°43′14″E / 37.9922889°N 23.72056°E /37.9922889; 23.72056
Owned by	GAIAOSE (Rail)[1] STASY (Metro)
Managed by	OSE (Rail) STASY (Metro)
Line(s)	Piraeus–Platy railway[2]
Platforms	8 (5 operational)
Tracks	13 (7 operational)
Train operators	Hellenic Train Athens Metro
Bus routes	1, 057, 790, A10, A15, B5, B10, B15,
Connections	Bus  Trolleybus Bus
Construction
Structure type	At-grade (Suburban Rail &Hellenic Train) Underground (Line 2)
Platform levels	2
Parking	Yes
Bicycle facilities	No
Accessible
Architectural style	Modern
Other information
Status	Staffed
Fare zone	1
Website	Official website
Key dates
8 March 1904	Railway station opened[3]
28 January 2000	Metro station opened[4]
30 July 2004	Suburban Railway opened[5]
30 July 2017	Railway electrified[6]
Services
Preceding station Hellenic Train Following station Terminus InterCity Express Larissa towardsThessaloniki InterCity Athens–Kalambaka Oinoi towardsKalambaka InterCity Athens–Thessaloniki Oinoi towardsThessaloniki Preceding station Suburban Rail Following station Rouf towardsPiraeus Line A1 Agioi Anargyroi towardsAthens Airport Line A4 Agioi Anargyroi towardsKiato Terminus Line A3 Agioi Anargyroi towardsChalcis Preceding station Athens Metro Following station Attiki towardsAnthoupoli Line 2 Metaxourgeio towardsElliniko
Location

Athens railway station line structure
Diagram not to scale
Legend
toSKA/Thessaloniki toPiraeus

Athens railway station (Greek:Σιδηροδρομικός Σταθμός Αθηνών,romanized: Sidirodromikos Stathmos Athinon) is the mainrailway station ofAthens and the second-largest station inGreece. Located in the central quarter ofKolonos, the railway station resulted from the merger of two separate railway terminals in 2005—Larissa station (Σταθμός Λαρίσης,Stathmos Larisis) of thePiraeus–Platy railway towards central and northern Greece, and thePeloponnese station (Σταθμός Πελοποννήσου,Stathmos Peloponnisou) of thePiraeus–Patras railway that formerly linked Athens with thePeloponnese.

The station is still colloquially known asLarissa Station,^[7] and is also the name of the adjacentAthens Metro station.

Inaugurated in 1904, the station was named after the city ofLarissa (then the northernmost city of theKingdom of Greece) and the one nearest the northern terminus of thestandard-gaugePiraeus–Papapouli railway.^[7] The adjacentPeloponnese Station, inaugurated on 30 June 1884, was served by themetre-gaugePiraeus–Patras railway to thePeloponnese. In 1920Hellenic State Railways or SEK was established; however, many railways, such as theSPAP continued to be run as a separate company, becoming an independent company once more two years later.

Due to growing debts, theSPAP came under government control between 1939 and 1940. During theAxis occupation of Greece (1941–44), Athens was controlled by German military forces, and the line was used for the transport of troops and weapons. During the occupation (and especially during the German withdrawal in 1944), the network was severely damaged by both the German army and Greek resistance groups. The track and rolling stock replacement took time following thecivil war, with regular service levels resumed around 1948. In 1954SPAP was nationalized once more. In 1962 theSPAP was amalgamated intoSEK.^[8] In 1970,OSE became the legal successor to theSEK, taking over responsibilities for most of Greece's rail infrastructure. On 1 January 1971, the station and most of the Greek rail infrastructure were transferred to theHellenic Railways Organisation S.A., a state-owned corporation. Freight traffic declined sharply when the deregulation of the transport of agricultural products and fertilisers occurred in the early 1990s.

In 2003, theHellenic Railways Organisation (OSE) launched theAthens Suburban Railway (Proastiakos) as a subsidiary responsible for the establishment of asuburban rail network in the Athens metropolitan area for the2004 Summer Olympics. Peloponnese Station was closed on 7 August 2005, along with the metre-gauge line betweenPiraeus andAgioi Anargyroi. Its services were transferred to Larissis Station upon the opening of the Suburban Railway line toCorinth on 27 September 2005.^[9][10] In 2005, TrainOSE was created as a brand within OSE to concentrate on rail services and passenger interface. In 2008, all Athens Suburban Railway services were transferred from OSE to TrainOSE.

The final service departed the unmodernized Larissis Station on 4 June 2017 before it was closed for various upgrades, including the installation of arailway electrification system.^[11] The upgraded station was reopened on 30 July 2017.^[12] TheAthens Metro station, inaugurated on 28 January 2000, lies underground and is served byLine 2 betweenAnthoupoli andElliniko. In July 2022, the station began being served byHellenic Train, the rebranded TrainOSE.^[13]

The station comprises a large, two-floorbuilding in centralAthens. Three platforms and four tracks are currently in use. The second phase of upgrades is underway, including the construction of new tracks and platforms, a central underpass connecting all platforms and the metro station, additional pedestrian underpasses and overpasses, building restoration works and an overhaul of road traffic surrounding the station.^[14] In the meantime, trains will continue to use the platforms and tracks built during the previous upgrade, located where thegoods yard of the old Peloponnese Station once stood.^[15]

VariousHellenic Train services call at the mainline station, including theInterCity andInterCity Express (ETR) service towardsLarissa andThessaloniki, and theAthens Suburban Railway towards the rest ofAttica and the northern coast of thePeloponnese.^[16]

The station is served the following lines of theAthensProastiakos or suburban railway:

• Athens Suburban RailwayLine A1 betweenPiraeus andAthens Airport, with up to one train per hour;^[17]
• Athens Suburban RailwayLine A3 towardsChalcis, with up to one train every two hours, and one extra train during the peak hours;^[18]
• Athens Suburban RailwayLine A4 between Piraeus andKiato, with up to one train per hour.^[19]

Since 15 May 2022, the following weekday followingHellenic Train services call at this station:

• InterCity Express (ETR): two trains per day in each direction, toThessaloniki;^[20]
• InterCity (IC): five trains per day in each direction to Thessaloniki with additional stops, and one train per day in each direction, toKalambaka;^[20]

During the twentieth century, especially in the first half, Athens station was the terminus for some international trains, such as anExpress toBerlin (departing from the formerAnhalter Bahnhof) or the "Arlberg"^[21] route of theOrient Express (London-Athens viaParis-Zürich-Vienna-Budapest-Belgrade-Skopje), in service until 1962 and then of the Direct Orient Express (Paris-Lausanne-Venice-Ljubljana-Zagreb-Belgrade-Skopje) until 1976.^[22]

The underground Larissa Station is served byAthens MetroLine 2 trains towardsAnthoupoli to the north, andElliniko to the south.^[23]

The station is also served by local and regional buses:

Transport for Athens operates Lines790,A10,A15,B10,B15 whileOSE operates some services.

The1 Trolleybus also calls at the station.

Note:All services are accessible from the forecourt.

Level L1	Platform11	→ Not in regular use
	Island platform, doors will open on the left, right
	Platform10	→ toChalcis(Agioi Anargyroi) →
	Platform9	← toPiraeus(Rouf)
	Island platform, doors will open on the left, right
	Platform8A	→ towardsThessaloniki(Oinoi /Larissa) →
	Platform8Β	→ towardsLeianokladi(SKA) →
	Platform7	→ toAthens Airport / toKiato(Agioi Anargyroi) →
	Island platform, doors will open on the right
	Platform6	→ Under reconstruction
	Platform5	→ Under reconstruction
	Island platform, doors will open on the left, right
	Platform4	→ Under reconstruction
	Platform3	→ Under reconstruction
	Island platform, doors will open on the left, right
	Platform2	→ Under reconstruction
	Platform1	→ Under reconstruction
	Side platform, doors will open on the right
Ground/Councourse G/C	Customer service	Shops/Buffet Tickets/Exits
Theodorou Diligianni Street
Ground/Concourse G/C	Customer service	Tickets Exits
Level L2	Side platform, doors open on the right or interchange to
	Platform12	← towardsElliniko(Metaxourgeio)
	Platform13	→ towardsAnthoupoli(Attiki) →
	Side platform, doors will open on the right or interchange to /

The work comprises the construction of lines 1-6, part of the underground crossing providing a connection to all the platforms and the connection to “Larissa” station, of Attiko Metro S.A. as well as the inclusion of provisional sheds and E/M works at ground level. The works will be implemented without rail traffic interruption, with the electrified right half corridor of the Railway Station (Lines 7-10) in operation and the uninterrupted passenger access from the east (Diligianni street) and the west (Konstantinoupoleos street) secured.^[24]

• 
  View of the station with metre gauge and normal gauge rails, 1979.
• 
  AAthens Suburban RailwayDMU at the station in 2005, beforeelectrification in 2017.
• 
  AnAlstom first-generationEMU at the metro station, 2010.
• 
  The heritage-listed building of the now closedPeloponnese Station, 2007.

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• Hellenic Railways Organisation
• Hellenic Train
• Thessaloniki railway station
• P.A.Th.E./P.
• Athens Suburban Railway
• Railways of Greece

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