Police and emergency crews examine the debris of a crushed wagon on the second day after a train accident in the Tempi Valley near Larissa, Greece, March 2, 2023.
But the line where the crash happened on February 28 -- the country's busiest, spanning 600 kilometres from Athens to the second-largest city of Thessaloniki in the north -- will not reopen until April 1, acting Transport Minister Georgios Gerapetritis said. The stationmaster on duty during the accident and three other railway officials have been charged and face possible life sentences.
Panagiotis Terezakis, the new director general of the state-owned Hellenic Railways Organisation that owns the network, said Wednesday the company "would do everything humanly possible to win back our passengers' confidence".On Tuesday, train drivers called for safety assurances including better monitoring of rail crossings, improved tunnel lighting, bridge inspection data and the removal of debris and overgrown vegetation from tracks.