(rshsdepot) Athens rail, part 3

["Paul Luchter" <luckyshow_@_mindspring.com>]

Hellenic Railway Organization: http://hermes.civil.auth.gr/ose.gif


Read of the Diakofto-Kalavryta Railway, On the Peloponnesos Island (west and
south west of Athens),  here:
http://www.islandstrolling.com/mainland/peloponnes/english/diakofto_kalavryt
a_railway.htm
Note the two car train with the small diesel in between. this is a N-S line
off the north coast line.
The Kalavryta Rack Railway (22 kilometer ascent, 75 cm gauge. Goes up
Vouraikos Gorge from seaside village of Diakopton. 70 minute ride. Crosses
20 bridges, there are 13 tunnels. Built 1895:
http://www.weightlifting.gr/loutraki2003/images/kalavryta.jpg
Here is Kalvrita station at the top of this rack railway:
http://www.railfaneurope.net/pix/gr/station/Kalavrita.jpg
An intermediate station stop on the cog railway, at Mega Spileon:
http://privacy.nb.ca/greece_files/Image20.jpg
http://privacy.nb.ca/greece_files/Image19.jpg
Looking out the train: http://privacy.nb.ca/greece_files/Image15.jpg
A page of Diakopto-Kalavrita rack railway pictures:
http://www.railfaneurope.net/pix/gr/narrow_gauge/3000/pix.html

Triple gauge tracks at Volos:
http://www.railfaneurope.net/pix/gr/narrow_gauge/misc/millie4.jpg

At Pireaus station, Athens, 1985:
http://www.railfaneurope.net/pix/gr/narrow_gauge/6400/gr6409_ds103404.jpg

Many of the new Athens LRV lines were built for this year's Olympics. The
cars are very "modern" looking:
http://www.blickpunktstrab.net/xphotos2003-athensx.jpg
http://www.ekathimerini.com/kathnews/photos/16-12-03/16-12-03_37471_1.gif
Trams had left Athens 40 years ago:
http://www.greece.gr/POLITICS/InternalAffairs/makingtracks.img/tram.jpg
LRV at Whitewater Olympic site:
http://www.canoeracer.com/Athens/images/991-White%20Water%20Tram_jpg.jpg
A page of LRV in Athens pictures:
http://www.railfaneurope.net/pix/gr/trams/pix.html
26.5 km on two lines

The 20 Athens trolleybus routes:
http://agn.hol.gr/page.asp?target=http://agn.hol.gr/info/trolley/trolley.htm
&sec=4
Trolleybuses of Athens:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/bruce.lake/TBus_Systems/Greece.htm

Patras (Pátrai) on Peloponnese, the railroad arrives, 1900:
http://www.proskopos.com/patra1900/traino.jpg
2001 Patras station (this is a one meter gauge line):
http://www2.chem.elte.hu/gigant_club/pic/gr/diesel/A9401/aten_patrai_pu.jpg

A tramway was in Patras:
http://www.pi-schools.gr/sxoleia/epl-patras/gr/98-te10/fourfouris/railway.jp
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Here on the Kalavriton (Gounari Street), the Paliovouna mountain in
backgrond, 1900: http://www.proskopos.com/patra1900/gounari.jpg
Inauguration of Patras electric tramway:
http://www.blickpunktstrab.net/historic2002_patras.jpg

Heading south on this island one comes to Tripolis.
Here is Tripolis (Triplolitza) station, 1930:
http://arcadia.ceid.upatras.gr/arkadia/photos/trpast/zax2.jpg
Here is the train from Tripolis in the Kakia Skala mountains:
http://de.geocities.com/sidirodromoi/104/0104c.8.jpg

[The Tripoli-Tarabulus, Lebanon horse tram on its way to the port of
El-Mina: http://www.blickpunktstrab.net/historic2001_tripolis.jpg  ]

Kiparissía is on the southwest coast of Peloponnesan peninsula (it isn't an
island, just looks like one), here is the stone station, 1997:
http://railweb.techsite.cz/galerie/fotky/2226.jpg

Loutraki is north on the other side of the isthnus from Corinth, here is
Loutraki station: http://railweb.techsite.cz/galerie/fotky/2307.jpg

Levadhia station is NW of Athens past Thebes:
http://railweb.techsite.cz/galerie/fotky/2301.jpg

One more shot of Athens-Larissa station:
http://railweb.techsite.cz/galerie/fotky/2306.jpg



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