Hellenic Railways Organization (OSE)

Economy Minister Kostis Hatzidakis: State-owned OSE needs to be upgraded, modernized - Ministry source: No issue of privatization, scant interest under present conditions

Greece’s National Organization for the Investigation of Air and Rail Accidents and Transport Safety concluded the causes of the Tempi train collision.

First instance decision orders state-run OSE and private Hellenic Train to pay 400,000 euros each to family of passenger train's inspector, who perished in the rail collision

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.