As “Peloponnisos” had written a few days ago, following Easter the main contract for heavy maintenance of the railway line of the Suburban of Patras begins.
According to reports, work will begin on Monday 13 May and will include complete disruption of routes to the southern branch for a period of time three weeksas it will become whole rail replacement and repairs, by central station of the Three Allies squareup to Agios Andreas station and maintenance work on remaining section up to Kato Achaia.
The contract will cause the line to retract and increasing the speed of the train, as a result of which the execution times of the routes on the southern branch will also be improved, so that the connection with the routes of the northern branch will also be served.
In view of this improvement, yesterday they were at the OSE station in Kato Achaia, the Deputy Minister of Transport Christina Alexopoulou, together with the managing director of the organization Panagiotis Terezakis, where they collaborated with the mayor of Western Achaia Grigoris Alexopoulos and his associates.
Examined prospect of resuming Suburban routes following line maintenance. It should be noted that in recent months, the train stops at Kaminion stationso that it is possible to connect the train with that of the northern branch from the station of Agios Andreas.
THE maintenance of the line, as mentioned above, will bring the train back on the line to Kato Achaiaand as “P” is able to know, the municipal authority of Grigoris Alexopoulos has plans to upgrade the OSE station and utilize the medium, to increase tourist traffic and passenger service for the public of Western Achaia.
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