Kifisia metro station
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Opened | 10 August 1957 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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The Kifissia station (Greek: Σταθμός Κηφισιάς - Stathmos Kifisias) is an Athens Metro station in Kifisia, Athens, Greece. It is the northern terminus of the line 1. The station is situated at 25.655 km from the starting point in Piraeus. The station was opened on 10 August 1957 and was renovated in 2004.[citation needed] On the site of the current Athens Metro station, there was a station of the former Lavriou Square-Strofyli railway line at 15.500 km from . It opened on February 4, 1885 and shut down on 8 August 1938.
History[]
The station was opened on 10 August 1957 and was renovated in 2004.[citation needed] On the site of the current Athens Metro station, there was a station of the former Lavriou Square-Strofyli railway line at 15.500 km from . It opened on 4 February 1885 and shut down on 8 August 1938.
Accidents and incidents[]
2009 Incident[]
On 3 March 2009, masked vandals destroyed a train waiting on one of station's platforms with Molotov cocktails, causing the service to be cut back to Eirini.[1]
2020 accident[]
On 7 July 2020, an Kifisias-bound terminating train[2] hit the buffers as it failed to slow while entering the station, with reports of no deaths and a total of 8 and 10 lightly injured in the incident.[3]
References[]
- ^ "Vandals attacked the electric train in Athens". GRReporter.info. 3 March 2009. Retrieved 28 July 2013.
- ^ "Σύγκρουση συρμού του ηλεκτρικού στην Κηφισιά με τραυματίες". 7 July 2020.
- ^ "Σύγκρουση συρμού του ηλεκτρικού στην Κηφισιά με τραυματίες". 7 July 2020.
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