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Greece announced on Wednesday urgent safety upgrades to the rail network following the train disaster last week at Tempi that claimed the lives of at least 57 people. "No train will set off again, if we have not secured safety...

The EU's European Railway Agency (ERA) has been warning successive governments in Greece since at least 2014 about safety gaps in the Greek railway system, it emerged on Tuesday. ERA head Josef Doppelbauer, speaking to Kathimerini newspaper, said that the...

Two doctors were suspended pending a disciplinary inquiry after it emerged that they granted 30 days of sick leave to the supervisor of the station master at Larissa just hours after the deadly train collision. The doctors at a hospital...

The neglect of the remote signaling systems on the Greek railway network is one of the major causes of the train disaster in Greece which claimed the lives of at least 57 people. Although the station master at Larissa seems...

The Greek stationmaster has been jailed pending trial on Sunday over the train crash at Tempi, near Larissa that killed at least 57 people. The 59-year-old man, who cannot be named under Greek law, was the stationmaster at Larissa that...

Police and demonstrators clashed in Athens on Sunday during a rally in Syntagma Square over the deadly rail disaster at Tempi last week that killed at least 57 people. Some demonstrators set fire to rubbish bins and threw petrol bombs....

The only survivor from the first carriage of the Greek passenger train that collided with a freight train on Tuesday is fighting for his life in an Intensive Care Unit in Larissa. 20-year-old Gerasimos-Iason Georgiadis is in critical condition, doctors...

Greece is burying its dead from the rail disaster at Tempi, near Larissa, on Tuesday. Families and friends, dressed in black, clung to each other, in tears, as the coffin of 23-year-old Ifigenia Mitska was lifted up the stairs of...

The station master involved in Greece's worst-ever train disaster is due to appear in court on Sunday to face charges for the crash that killed at least 57 people. The 59-year-old station master at Larissa, central Greece, has admitted responsibility...

Thousands of students protested on Friday throughout Greece demanding justice for the victims of the train disaster at Tempi. “Text me when you arrive”, is one of the main slogans written on banners that can be seen in every part...