Line A4 is an

Athens Suburban Railway The Athens Suburban Railway (), officially the Athens Suburban and Regional Railway, is a commuter rail service that connects the city of Athens and its metropolitan area with other places in Attica, Boeotia, Corinthia and the city of Chalcis in ...

(Proastiakos) line in

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, managed by

Hellenic Train Hellenic Train S.A., formerly TrainOSE S.A. (), is a private railway company in Greece which operates passenger and freight trains on OSE lines. Hellenic Train employs train crews, operators and manages most of the rail services throughout the ...

. The service connects

Piraeus Piraeus ( ; ; , Ancient: , Katharevousa: ) is a port city within the Athens urban area ("Greater Athens"), in the Attica region of Greece. It is located southwest of Athens city centre along the east coast of the Saronic Gulf in the Ath ...

with the coastal city of

Kiato Kiato () is a town in the northern part of Corinthia in the Peloponnese, Greece. It is the seat of the municipality of Sikyona. Kiato is situated on the Gulf of Corinth, near the mouth of the river Asopos. It has much tourist activity mainly in ...

. The line shares a part of its course with lines A1 and A3 as well as Metro line 2, but also with line A3 at

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. The first Suburban line was inaugurated on 30 July 2004, using 17 OSE Class 560 DMUs between Larissa Station (Now

) and the

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. With the completion of the electrification of the sections of the line to Athens in 2017 and

in 2018. The line now exclusively uses

OSE class 460 The OSE Class 460 is the first class of electric trainsets (Electric multiple unit, EMU) in Greece and, together with the 621 class, it is the second most recent series of railcars operated by TRAINOSE after the 3107 class. They are OSE rolling st ...

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rolling stock.

History

An indirect

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train service between and started on 27 September 2005 after seven months of testing, with the extension to following on 9 July 2007. The service initially used Class 560

diesel multiple unit A diesel multiple unit or DMU is a multiple-unit train powered by on-board diesel engines. A DMU requires no separate locomotive, as the engines are incorporated into one or more of the carriages. Diesel-powered single-unit railcars are also ...

s, and had to reverse at . The first direct trains between and Kiato, which did not have to reverse at Nerantziotissa, ran on 6 July 2008. From 12 December 2010 to 29 July 2017, electric train services using Class 460

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s were introduced between Kiato and the

, forcing passengers heading to and from Piraeus and Athens to change at for the diesel service to the cities. Direct services between Athens and Kiato were restored with the

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of the

Piraeus–Platy railway The railway from Piraeus to Platy is an electrified double-track railway line that connects Athens to northern Greece and the rest of Europe. It constitutes the longest section of the mostly completed higher-speed rail line known as P.A.Th.E. ...

from to Athens on 30 July 2017, and then to Piraeus on 1 February 2018, when the last diesel services on what is now Line A4 ceased.

Route

On the Piraeus–Platy segment, Lines A1 and A3 shares the route up to Piraeus and Athens respectively, but Line A3 does not stop at and .

Stations

The spelling of the station names on this table, in English and Greek, are according to the signage.

References

{{Athens Suburban Railway navbox, lines=A4 Railway stations in Greece opened in 2004 Railway stations in Greece opened in 2007

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Railway stations in Greece opened in 1884

History

Route

Stations

See also

References