Rentis railway station

Rentis railway station is a station on the Piraeus–Platy railway line in Agios Ioannis Rentis, a suburban town in the Piraeus regional unit. Originally opened on 30 June 1884 it was rebuilt to serve the Athens Suburban Railway lines when this section came into operation in June 2007.

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Type: Railway station
Description: station on the Proastiakos railway of Athens, Greece
Also known as: “Agios Ioannis Renti railway station” and “Ρέντης”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Railway Museum Athens and General Hospital of Nikea ‘Agios Panteleimon’.

Railway Museum Athens

Museum

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The Railway Museum of Athens, Greece, was founded by the Hellenic Railways Organisation in 1978. It was located at 4 Siokou Street in Athens, but the collection has since been moved to the former MPR Depot site in Lefka, Piraeus in 2019 (not to be confused with the Electric Railways Museum of Piraeus. Railway Museum Athens is situated 2 km southwest of Rentis railway station.

General Hospital of Nikea ‘Agios Panteleimon’

Hospital

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General Hospital of Nikea ‘Agios Panteleimon’ is situated 1¼ km northwest of Rentis railway station.

Moschato

Metro station

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Moschato is on the Athens Metro Line 1, located in the municipality of Moschato-Tavros in the regional unit of South Athens, Attica, Greece. It is marked at the 3.982 km from the starting point in Piraeus station of Line 1. Moschato is situated 1¼ km southeast of Rentis railway station.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Agios Ioannis Renti and Kaminia.

Agios Ioannis Renti

Suburb

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Agios Ioannis Renti is a suburb and a former municipality in the Piraeus regional unit, lying in the western part of the Athens agglomeration in Greece.