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The Friendship Express ( Turkish: Dostluk Ekspresi, Greek: Εξπρές Φιλίας, Exprés Filías ), was an international InterCity train jointly operated by the Turkish State Railways (TCDD) and TrainOSE from July 2005 to February 2011, linking Istanbul 's Sirkeci Terminal, Turkey and Thessaloniki, Greece. Eastbound trains (service 444/ ...
Type of service Exceptions 1-39 Urban (OASTH-operated) Lines 1, 9 and 36 are also operated by KTEL. 40-92 Regional (KTEL-operated) Lines 42, 43, 45, 59 and 60 are within Thessaloniki's urban area. Lines 52 and 72 are operated by OASTH despite being outside Thessaloniki's urban area. Κ-prefixed routes Trunk routes X-prefixed routes Airport routes
Website. www.oasth.gr. The Thessaloniki Urban Transport Organisation ( Greek: Οργανισμός Αστικών Συγκοινωνιών Θεσσαλονίκης ), abbreviated OASTH ( Greek: ΟΑΣΘ ), is a mass transport company operating in Thessaloniki, Greece. It was founded in 1957 and now covers a large area of the metropolitan area ...
Website. Official website. Hellenic Train S.A., formerly TrainOSE S.A. ( Greek: ΤραινΟΣΕ Α.Ε. ), is a private railway company in Greece which operates passenger and freight trains on OSE lines. Hellenic Train employs train crews, operators and manages most of the rail services throughout the Greek railway network, leasing rolling ...
During the twentieth century, especially in the first half, Athens station was the terminus for some international trains, such as an Express to Berlin (departing from the former Anhalter Bahnhof) or the "Arlberg" [21] route of the Orient Express (London-Athens via Paris-Zürich-Vienna-Budapest-Belgrade-Skopje), in service until 1962 and then ...
The Thessaloniki Waterbus, operated as Karavakia ( Greek: Καραβάκια, Little Boats ), is a ferry service connecting central Thessaloniki with the nearby beach towns of Peraia and Neoi Epivates, [1] in the Thessaloniki metropolitan area. It operates a fleet of three ships ( Konstantis, Olympia, and Aghios Georgios) on a single 50-minute ...
The first station to open in Larissa was built by Thessaly Railways, and opened on 22 April 1884 [6] as the northern terminus of the Thessaly Railways line to Volos, on 1,000 mm ( 3 ft3+3⁄8in) metre gauge. The original station building (and the line) was designed by the Italian Evaristo de Chirico, (father of Giorgio de Chirico ).
Thessaloniki was the 2014 European Youth Capital. The city's main university, Aristotle University, is the largest in Greece and the Balkans. [ 13] The city was founded in 315 BC by Cassander of Macedon, who named it after his wife Thessalonike, daughter of Philip II of Macedon and sister of Alexander the Great.