Hellenic Railways Organization (OSE)

One man, an employee of a private contractor, was charged with bribery to allow the theft in the Aspropyrgos district

The deadly rail disaster is still considered as a distinct and festering 'thorn in the side' of the current center-right Mitsotakis government

Destruction of rail infrastucture a long-standing problem plaguing Greece's state-owned and managed railway network

Tempi-like human error blamed for putting 2 suburban rail trains on same track and heading towards each other; train operators averted the erroneous order

Hellenic Railways Organisation (OSE) employee was jailed for 17 months; he will be under house arrest while awaiting trial for the Tempi collision

Founded in 1884, the Peloponnese line is Europe’s longest meter-gauge railway network. Services stopped in 2011 as a result of Greece’s debt crisis.