Greek passenger trains resumed service at lower speeds and with stricter safety rules on Monday (April 3) along the route where dozens of people traveling to northern Greece were killed in a crash in February.

Five weeks after Greece's worst rail disaster, which killed 57 people, partial service was resumed on Monday on the main train line linking Athens and Thessaloniki, the country's second-largest city in the north.

The route was the scene of a head-on collision on February 28 between a freight train and a passenger train with more than 350 people on board, many of them young students.

The crash triggered weeks of angry protests and is set to weigh heavily on the general election in May, in which Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is seeking to retain his post.

Aggelos Tsiamouras, a crash survivor, says on camera: "I was a passenger in the train during the fatal crash. Τrain services have started normally while it is not even safe, the safety systems have not yet been installed on the lines that should be there for people to travel safely by train. In addition, they did not respect our dead, they do not respect the fact that their 40 days have not even passed."

Low speeds and only a handful of passengers dared to re-enter trains in Greece after deadly crash - Greek passenger trains resumed service at lower speeds and with stricter safety rules on Monday 03.04.2023 along the route where dozens of people traveling to northern Greece were killed in a crash in February.

Five weeks after Greece's worst rail disaster, which killed 57 people, partial service resumed on Monday on the main train line linking Athens and Thessaloniki, the country's second-largest city.

The route was the scene of a head-on collision on February 28 between a freight train and a passenger train with more than 350 people on board, many of them young students. The crash triggered weeks of angry protests and is set to weigh heavily on the general election in May, in which Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is seeking to retain his post.

Crash survivors "It's not safe to take again the train as the line operates without proper security systems"

02:09-02:34 Aggelos Tsiamouras crash survivor "I was a passenger in the train during the fatal crash. Τrain services have started normally while it is not even safe, the safety systems have not yet been installed on the lines that should be there for people to travel safely by train. In addition, they did not respect our dead, they do not respect the fact that their 40 days have not even passed.