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Orfana rail disaster

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reciprocated by honking. The Investigation found the accident occurred due to a lack of understanding between the station masters of the two stations combined with the fact that the network was a single line (at the time) and there were no modern methods of intercommunication. The two stationmasters had disagreed on which of the two trains should have priority, and, despite the intervention of the train traffic controller from Athens, both the "Acropolis Express" and the "post" normally passed through the station of Doxaras and Orphanes, respectively, with the result to collide en route. The two stationmasters and the traffic controller were charged with
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soon developing a speed of 100 km/h (62 mph) at 16:45 in the afternoon the "Acropolis Express" collided with the "post" head-on. The "Acropolis" diesel engine crushed the "post" engine, while all its first three wagons were crushed. The collision killed 21 people and injured 40. It is the
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Investigation revealed that two minutes prior to the crash, a shepherd saw the fateful course of both trains from a hill above the curve in the track and tried with his cape to warn the driver of the "Acropolis", but the driver misunderstood his actions and thought he was greeting him and thus
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At noon, an Alco diesel engine (one of the most modern the Greek railways had at the time) was waiting for the two drivers. The train left Thessaloniki at 13:30 in the afternoon bound for Athens, while the other, a slow stopping service, Train 121 left Piraeus at 09:30 bound for
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In the aftermath, reports emerged of two women who boarded the Orfanon station and would get off at the next station of Doxaras (a route that did not exceed 10 kilometers). One died, and the other was seriously injured.
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caused an express train and a military relief train to collide in bad weather on the single track line. Twenty-one people died, and more than forty were injured in one of the deadliest rail accidents in Greece.
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of what would become the Piraeus–Platy mainline, the section where the collision took place was replaced with a more direct tunnel between Doxaras and Orfana, bypassing the blind turn completely.
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ordered the Northbound train to proceed as well. It was written that the train drivers heard a fight on the radio and thus failed to reduce speed. In the meantime, the assistant driver of
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third deadliest railway accidents that have happened in Greece, following the Tempe collision (28 February 2023 - 57 dead) and Derveni (1968 - 34 dead).
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because it also carried the mail) which was also transporting 30 Artillery soldiers from Thebes as transfer to units in Northern Greece. The weather in
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were listening to the broadcast of the Panioni-Olympic football match on the radio that day and were probably engrossed and thus distracted. With
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at the time, alarmed by this second fatal crash, decided to modernize the train communications network through its vice-president
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occurred on 16 January 1972 when, at around 16:45, a breakdown in communication between the corresponding stationmasters at
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arrived in Larissa, where it made a short stop before continuing its course southwards. Both services where run by
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and disrupting traffic safety in the first degree. At the trial, which took place in November 1972 in
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stationmaster, was sentenced to five years in prison, while the other two defendants were acquitted.
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to proceed. This was not an issue, as the line was (at the time) signal, the trans would use a
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or OSE, the state railway company which had only come into operation one-year prior.
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Typically priority was given to the high-speed train from Thessaloniki, but
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left Larissa, the Paleofarsalos stationmaster give the departure order to
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in the late afternoon on the main line between the stations of
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at ether Orfanon or Doxara station. The two station masters,
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Human error (Lack of coordination between station masters)
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Subsequently, with the upgrading, track doubling, and
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Index

Orfana
Athens–Thessaloniki mainline
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Head-on collision
List of rail accidents in Greece
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New Thessaloniki
Larissa
Acropolis Express
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Train 121
Enipeas river
Orfana
Palaiofarsalos
Athens
Doxaras
Orfana
Nikolaos Gekas
Thessaloniki
Munich
Athens
Thessaloniki
Thessaly
Hellenic Railways Organisation
Doxaras

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