Patras railway station


Patras railway station is a railway station in Patras in the northwestern Peloponnese, Greece. It is located in the centre of the city, beside the north port. Built in 1954, it previously served as the terminus for the lines from Athens and Kalamata. Since the suspension of regional services on the metre-gauge railways of the Peloponnese in 2011, the station is used only by local Proastiakos trains which currently connect the city with the suburbs of Rio and Kaminia. Pending the completion of the Athens Airport–Patras railway, it is also the starting point of TrainOSE bus lines to Aigio and Kiato, where connecting train services to Corinth and Athens are available.

Station building

The station lies in central Patras between Othonos-Amalias Avenue and the north port. It is a small building, typical of the 1950s without any modern facilities. Beside the station there is a restaurant and a cafeteria. There is only one platform and two meter gauge rail tracks. After the completion of the new railway line the station will move to another more spacious building but still there are no publicly available data regarding the location and the architectural design of the new station.
Within a few meters distance from the station, there is the Patras Railway Museum open-air showroom which hosts a very old locomotive of the Piraeus, Athens and Peloponnese Railways No. Zs 7.532

Services

The station is served by the Agios Andreas–Rio line of the Proastiakos, with another line running from the Agios Andreas terminus to Kaminia pending the extension to Kato Achaia. Rail services are provided by OSE trains. The trains run every hour daily, from 6:23 in the morning until 23:23 in the evening. The Agios Andreas–Rio route has two bus connections at Kastellokampos—to Agios Vasileios and the General University Hospital of Patras via the University of Patras.

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