“The only thing I can say is good luck”: How trains abolished by Switzerland are now back in business in Greece

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ΟΛΑ ΤΑ ΔΙΕΘΝΗ ΛΑΜΟΓΙΑ ΗΡΘΑΝ  ΝΑ ΕΠΕΝΔΥΣΟΥΝ ΣΤΗΝ ΕΛΛΑΔΑ & ΟΧΙ ΤΙΠΟΤΑ ΑΛΛΟ ΤΟΥΣ ΤΑ ΕΔΩΣΑΝ ΚΑΙ ΤΖΑΜΠΑ.

  Εδώ το άρθρο μας λέει, πως η ιταλική τραινοσέ ή όπως αλλιώς λέγεται, έφερε στην Ελλάδα τρένα από την Ελβετία, τα οποία οι Ελβετοί τα απέσυραν και θα τα πετούσαν στα σκουπίδια λόγω κάκιστης ποιότητας!!…

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Delays, breakdowns, cancellations... For years, ETR 470 trains were the biggest headache of the Swiss railways. In the end, the Swiss sent them for scrap. But the Italian railways — which has been running all Greek passenger trains since 2017 — presented the very same trains as state-of-the-art. "Stay away from these trains," say executives who know them first hand. So why is this train — that has repeatedly put passengers in danger in the past — getting a new lease of life?

“The advice from Switzerland: hands off these trains,” says Walter Finkbohner, former secretary of the board of directors of Cisalpino AG, the subsidiary of Italian and Swiss railways that bought the ETR 470s from the manufacturer, Fiat Ferroviaria in the 1990s. “Buy proven trains or new trains. There is nothing for free in life,” he adds. But Greece is not in a position to accept such recommendations, nor to choose which rolling stock circulates on its tracks, since its railways were fully privatised five years ago, as required by its creditors. 

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