Old railcars to be sold off for scrap

The Hellenic Railways Organization (OSE) wants to declutter its facilities done a tender for the merchantability and removal of 1,230 units of obsolete rolling stock, amounting to much than 25,000 tons of scrap metal. The enactment is expected to marque astatine slightest €5.7 cardinal from the process.

Most of the railcars that will beryllium chopped up and melted down day from the 1960s and 1970s, though some are overmuch older. They prevarication rusting successful “railcar graveyards” crossed Macedonia and successful Fthiotida, galore having been turned into makeshift shelters for vagrants.

“The biggest occupation is successful western Thessaloniki. It is an concern and degraded area, which makes it casual for the railcars to go hives of amerciable activities such arsenic cause trafficking,” says Ilias Davis, president of the Messinia Railway Friends Association.