(ANSA-AFP) - ATHENS, MAR 22 - Intercity rail travel in Greece
resumed on Wednesday for the first time since a head-on
collision of two trains killed 57 people more than three weeks
ago, operator Hellenic Train said. Trains connecting shipping
port Piraeus to the capital's international airport, those
between Athens and Chalcis, and two other local lines in the
west Peloponnese have started running again, the company said.
Traffic on the line where the crash happened on February 28, the
country's worst rail disaster, will not resume until April 1,
acting Transport Minister Georgios Gerapetritis said. That line
is the country's busiest, spanning 600 kilometres (370 miles)
from Athens to the country's second-largest city of Thessaloniki
in the north. The train disaster sparked weeks of angry and
occasionally violent protests and piled pressure on the
conservative government of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis
ahead of elections due in May. (ANSA-AFP).
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Greek trains resume after February rail crash: operator
Disaster sparked weeks of angry protests