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Date: 02/28/23 18:57
Fatal accident in Greece
Author: DavidP

Reuters is reporting twenty-six dead in a crash between an inter-city passenger train and a freight train near the city of Larissa in northern Greece.

Dave



Date: 02/28/23 20:07
Re: Fatal accident in Greece
Author: goduckies




Date: 02/28/23 23:19
Re: Fatal accident in Greece
Author: 86235




Date: 03/01/23 20:03
Re: Fatal accident in Greece
Author: chessie_the_cat

Yes awful many times over in a nightmereish way. I have Greek inlaws in Athens and Thessaloniki (fortunately none were involved).

Is anyone here familiar with what (if any) kind of signaling system they had on that line? I'm curious how this could have happened and the news reports aren't giving me much information.

-Andrew L.



Date: 03/02/23 10:43
Re: Fatal accident in Greece
Author: TAW

chessie_the_cat Wrote:
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> Yes awful many times over in a nightmereish way. I
> have Greek inlaws in Athens and Thessaloniki
> (fortunately none were involved).
>
> Is anyone here familiar with what (if any) kind of
> signaling system they had on that line? I'm
> curious how this could have happened and the news
> reports aren't giving me much information.
>

Nothing yet except 'human error' and a stationmaster (operator) was arrested. There was a similar collison in Spain 20ish years ago in which the operator couldn't get a signal for the passenger train (because of a train coming the other way) and hand signaled the passenger train through the plant.

TAW



Date: 03/05/23 21:02
Re: Fatal accident in Greece
Author: jofegan

Reading between the lines, sounds like this was "dark" territory - but interested in finding out more about how this was dispatched since that seems to be one of the factors.  Unfortunately, none of the news reports have any info about  these technical operational details.

--j



Date: 03/05/23 21:42
Re: Fatal accident in Greece
Author: ts1457




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