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Tuesday 9th August 2022
My original plan was to get the 08:09 train from Lamia to Lianokladi, to travel on the only pair of trains that are booked to run via the old main line between Lianokladi and Tithorea. I was in considerable doubt that these would actually run, as the other services via the intermediate stations are in the schedules as buses; they are simply a remnant of the service before the new faster route opened a couple of years ago. I later worked out that the train from Lamia was in fact a bus, but I hadn't seen this from where I was standing on the station platform. This of course meant that I missed the two "rare" trains; I didn't need the track as I'd been that way many times before the new line opened. However if they had run, I would have seen it arrive back in Lianokladi when I did eventually get there on the later bus. Also what I could see of the relevant track looked rather rusty even for what I assume would be a lightweight DMU. Nothing significant missed but I'd like to know the true situation. Anyway I continued to Athína to check into my usual hotel there, opposite the station. Then to the Peloponnese to cover the extension beyond Kiato to Aegio that opened in June 2020; I had an hour spare so spent it at Ano Liosia looking at the old metre gauge route there.
See trip report for the full itinerary, traction details and notes.
My original plan was to get the 08:09 train from Lamia to Lianokladi, to travel on the only pair of trains that are booked to run via the old main line between Lianokladi and Tithorea. I was in considerable doubt that these would actually run, as the other services via the intermediate stations are in the schedules as buses; they are simply a remnant of the service before the new faster route opened a couple of years ago. I later worked out that the train from Lamia was in fact a bus, but I hadn't seen this from where I was standing on the station platform. This of course meant that I missed the two "rare" trains; I didn't need the track as I'd been that way many times before the new line opened. However if they had run, I would have seen it arrive back in Lianokladi when I did eventually get there on the later bus. Also what I could see of the relevant track looked rather rusty even for what I assume would be a lightweight DMU. Nothing significant missed but I'd like to know the true situation. Anyway I continued to Athína to check into my usual hotel there, opposite the station. Then to the Peloponnese to cover the extension beyond Kiato to Aegio that opened in June 2020; I had an hour spare so spent it at Ano Liosia looking at the old metre gauge route there.
See trip report for the full itinerary, traction details and notes.
Lianokladi
Lianokladi
Athína
Athína
Athína
Ano Liosia
Ano Liosia
Kiato
Aegio
Aegio
Kiato