New look to Athens Metro Line 1 trains

The Transport Ministry presented connected Tuesday the archetypal afloat rebuilt Athens Metro Line 1 (ISAP) train.

It is conscionable 1 retired of 14 eighth-generation trains that entered work betwixt 1983 and 1985.

The goal, aft the reconstruction of each trains, is to trim the frequence of services from 8.5 minutes past year to conscionable 5 minutes by 2027.

According to metro relation STASY’s schedule, this train will beryllium enactment into work successful July, while the total transportation of the 14 trains is expected to beryllium completed successful May 2027.

“After 20 years and more, a afloat rebuilt train is coming to the ISAP tracks,” said Deputy Minister of Transport Konstantinos Kyranakis, during the presumption of the train connected Tuesday greeting astatine the STASY depot successful Sepolia.

“These trains were built successful 1985 and there are nary spare parts for them anymore, so it was indispensable to transportation retired this renovation successful bid to support them successful work for different 25 years,” said Christos Mamaloukakis, wide manager of attraction astatine STASY.

“These are 14 trains and 70 carriages,” helium said: “They person been wholly renovated some internally and externally, but astir importantly, each the electromechanical instrumentality has been replaced, present offering reliable and harmless services to passengers.”

The reconstruction of 14 trains from the eighth batch is expected to springiness important alleviation to the historical but problematic ISAP, fixed that connected Line 1 (linking Piraeus with Kifissia) the aerial conditioning of the trains has a very debased efficiency.

There are adjacent 4 “French” trains “on loan” from Lines 2 and 3, which bash not person aerial conditioning astatine all, resulting successful passengers boiling, particularly successful the summertime when temperatures soar.

The task to upgrade 14 trains of the eighth batch of ISAP has gone connected for years, with agelong delays, resulting successful STASY imposing fines of astir €3.8 cardinal connected Spanish contractor CAF.