The Greek rail network covers 2.449 km, connecting big cities and small towns, in Greece and the other Balkan countries and Turkey.
Your Eurail Pass is valid on trains operated by the Greek national railway company OSE.
Train types
Inter City Express trains
New Inter City Express trains, offer high quality and speed to our guests traveling between Athens and Thessaloniki. For the use of these trains the Eurail Pass holder has to pay a seat reservation fee, which you can obtain locally.
Inter City trains
Traveling by Inter City train is always relaxing: air conditioning, meal served at the seat, snacks or drinks are available at the bar.
Suburban “Proastiakos” trains connect:
- Athens and Korinthos and v.v. in 1 hour and 20 minutes.
- Athens (Central Railway Station “Stathmos Larissis”) and the E. Venizelos/Airport of Athens and v.v. in 45 minutes
- Korinthos (New Railway Station) and the E. Venizelos/Airport of Athens and v.v. in 1 hour and 20 minutes.
Overnight trains
There is an overnight train connecting Athens and Thessaloniki and v.v.
International trains
There are international trains connecting Thessaloniki and Belgrade, Sofia, Budapest, Ljubljana and Istanbul. A daily sleeping car is connecting Athens and Sofia and v.v.. Rack Railway
Most domestic day trains in Greece dot not require reservations.
Exception: for the Inter City Express trains reservation is compulsory. The price depends on distance.
See the page Overview of domestic reservation fees.
Starting the train journey from Patras, in Peloponnese, the traveler can visit:
- Olympia, where the first Olympic Games took place
- Athens, using the OSE and Suburban “Proastiakos” trains with a change at Korinthos New Railway Station, and many other places.
Starting the train journey from Athens, one of the biggest centres of the ancient culture, and also a modern city of our time, the traveler can visit:
- The beautiful town of Volos, near the magnificent mountain of Pilion
- The city of Thessaloniki, the second biggest city of Greece, passing during the journey by Olympus, the mountain of gods and many other places.
The Rack Railway takes you from Diakopto to Kalavrita, a historic town of Peloponnese, on mountain Helmos at an altitude of 2.343 ft ascending for 22 km (14 miles) following the steep slopes of the Vouraikos gorge.
Steam train
The steam train takes you from Ano Lechonia to Milies, through the picturesque mountain of Pelion, in the Thessalia area. Suburban trains Suburban trains connect:
- Athens and Chalkida, the capital of the island Evia, in 1 hour and 30 minutes
- Athens and Loutraki, the well known seaside resort in 1 hour and 40 minutes.
Scenic route
* Kardítsa-Kalambáka
Eurail Aid Offices in Greece
For questions about Eurail, you can go to the Hellenic Railways Travel agency in Athens, the Railway Station of Patras or the Central Railway Station of Thessaloniki.
Detailed information about Eurail Aid Offices in Greece and the rest of Europe.
Airport links
From Athens E.Venizelos airport there is a train every hour to Athens Central Railway Station and to Kiato New Railway Station (change at Ano Liossia station).
