Random Photos of Athens Transit and the Kalavrita Rack Railway

An Athens metro train on Line 3.

The new metro trains feature a walk-through design.

A tram near the terminus at Syntagma Square.

A tram waiting for a traffic light to change.

Electric trolley buses at a stop near Syntagma Square.

An electric trolley bus on Leoforos Kifisias.

Another electric trolley bus on Leoforos Kifisias.

Station for the Proastiakos suburban trains near Corinth.

A Proastiakos train boarding at the Corinth station.

Photographs are not allowed in the station! (Note the three rails to accommodate both standard guage Proastiakos trains and narrow gauge Peloponnesian trains.)

Proastiakos train being paced along the Attiki Odos.

A train entering the station in Loutraki.

A Loutraki train covered in grafitti ...

... and stopped a block short of the station by an illegally parked car.

A train heading west from Corinth.

A rack steam engine of the Kalavrita line.

A rack railway train of the Kalvrita line.

Another view of the rack railway train.

The motive power of the rack railway train.

The station at Kalavrita.

A postcard of the Kalavrita line.

Another postcard.