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Athens-Thessaloniki high-speed rail service set for January 2018 start

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Thessaloniki, Greece (PortSEurope) October 31, 2017 – Preparations are going ahead for the first high-speed connection between Athens and Thessaloniki with the Frecciabianca passenger train scheduled to start in mid-January. This could reduce the rail journey time to 4.5 hours. To enable this, the completion of the electrification on the Piraeus-Thessaloniki axis, especially of the Tithoreas…

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