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Athens railway station

Athens railway station is the main railway station of and the second-largest station in . Located in the central quarter of Kolonos, the railway station resulted from the merger of two separate railway terminals in 2005—Larissa station of the…
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  • Type: Railway station
  • Description: main railway station of Athens, Greece
  • Also known as: “Athens”, “Athens Central Railway Station”, “Athens Larisa Station”, “Athina”, and “Larissa Station”
  • Wheelchair access: yes

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Platonic Academy and Larissa Station metro station.

Archaeological site
Photo: Raphael, Public domain.
The Academy was founded by Plato in ca. 387 BC in Athens. Aristotle studied there for twenty years before founding his own school, the Lyceum. The Academy persisted throughout the Hellenistic period as a skeptical school, until coming to an end after the death of Philo of Larissa in 83 BC. is situated 1 km west of Athens railway station.

Metro station
Photo: Sv1xv, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Railway station
Photo: Stathis floros, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The was a station on the Piraeus, Athens and Peloponnese Railways metre gauge line in . Originally opened on 30 June 1884 it was the first railway terminal in the Greek capital. is situated 360 metres south of Athens railway station.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Stathmos Larisis and Attiki.

Neighborhood
Photo: C messier, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a neighborhood.

Neighborhood
is a neighbourhood of , located northwest of the city centre. The neighbourhood and its central square are named after Attica Railways, a railway company that constructed the line Athens-Kifissia-Lavrion.

Quarter
Colonus or was a deme of the phyle Aegeis, of ancient Attica, celebrated as the deme of Sophocles, and the scene of one of the poet's tragedies, was situated ten stadia from the gate of the city, called Dipylum, near Plato's Academy and the river .

Athens railway station

Latitude
37.99284° or 37° 59′ 34″ north
Longitude
23.72014° or 23° 43′ 13″ east
Elevation
58 metres (190 feet)
Operator
ΟΣΕ
Network
Intercity;Προαστιακός Αθήνας
Open location code
8G95XPVC+43
Open­Street­Map ID
way 609979867
Open­Street­Map feature
public_transport=­station
Open­Street­Map feature
railway=­station
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­yes
Geo­Names ID
7910528
Wiki­data ID
Q3560693
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Venetian—“Athens railway station” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Stacioni hekurudhor i Athinës”
  • Chinese: “雅典火車站”
  • Chinese: “雅典火车站”
  • Chinese: “雅典站”
  • Dutch: “station Athene”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “محطة اثينس”
  • Finnish: “Ateenan rautatieasema”
  • French: “Athènes”
  • French: “gare d’Athènes”
  • French: “Gare d’Athènes”
  • German: “Bahnhof Athen”
  • Greek: “Αθήνα”
  • Greek: “Κεντρικός σιδηροδρομικός σταθμός Αθηνών”
  • Greek: “Σιδηροδρομικός σταθμός Αθήνας”
  • Greek: “Σιδηροδρομικός Σταθμός Αθήνας”
  • Greek: “Σταθμός Λαρίσης”
  • Hungarian: “Athén vasútállomás”
  • Italian: “stazione di Atene”
  • Italian: “Stazione di Atene”
  • Japanese: “アテネ駅”
  • Persian: “ایستگاه راه‌آهن آتن”
  • Polish: “Ateny Centralne”
  • Spanish: “Estacion Central de Atenas”
  • Spanish: “Estación Central de Atenas”
  • Spanish: “Estación de Atenas”
  • Turkish: “Atina Garı”
  • Urdu: “ایتھنز ریلوے اسٹیشن”
  • Venetian: “stasion Sentrałe de Atenas”

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