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I saved my train images for the last page. The first image shows the
Nafplio train station, which is itself housed in a set of old narrow
gauge passenger cars. (There's a waiting room, and ticket office, and
a cafe.) Nafplio has only one working track. The second image shows the more substantial Patra-Athens train coming into the station at Corinth, where I spent several hours waiting for trains. This is the hand-operated switch at the Corinth station. The Greek lettering on the top says "Athina," or Athens in Greek. The third image is the Corinth canal, dreamed up by Alexander the Great (and just about every other person who ever looked at a map of Greece). It was finished in the 1800's, and is now obsolete, though cruise ships sometimes use it. The scenery from Corinth to Athens is quite pretty. The fourth image shows some of this rugged terrain. On the left-hand side of the picture you can just make out a World War II era pillbox. I don't know if the fortifications in the area were built by the Greeks or the Germans. The bottom image is of the pretty Peloponnese train station in Athens. The station only serves the narrow gauge trains that connect to points in the Peloponnese (including Nafplio and Corinth). [ Next page ] |
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