Tavros – Eleftherios Venizelos metro station

Athens Metro station

Preceding station	Athens Metro			Following station
Kallithea towards Piraeus		Line 1		Petralona towards Kifissia

Location

Tavros, officially Tavros–Eleftherios Venizelos (Greek: Ταύρος–Ελευθέριος Βενιζέλος) is a station on Line 1 of the Athens Metro, 6.171 km from the line's southern terminus at Piraeus.^[2] It is located in the municipality of Tavros in the regional unit of South Athens, Attica, near the boundary with Kallithea. The station is also known as Tavros-Eleftherios Venizelou, after the former Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos.

History

The first proposals for a station were made in 1925, when engineer Alexander Verdelis demarcated the Harokopou station at almost the same location as part of his proposal to build a wider subway network for the capital.^[3] Construction of the plant began in 1988, and opened on 6 February 1989^[4] at a cost of 200 million drachmas. The station was renovated in 2004 in the run-up to the Summer Olympics that year.

Facilities

It has a central island platform serving two tracks and a reversing siding towards Kallithea station.

Services

In the past the station was the southern terminus of a peak hour train service "Tavros-Ano Patissia",^[5] later extended as "Tavros-Irini".

References

^ "Stations". Athens Piraeus Electric Railways (in Greek). Athens. 17 January 2012. Archived from the original on 17 January 2012. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
^ G. Nathenas; A. Kourbelis; T. Vlastos; S. Kourouzidis; V. Katsareas; P. Karamanis; A. Klonos; N. Kokkinos (2007). Από τα Παμφορεία στο Μετρό (in Greek). Vol. 2. Athens: Μίλητος (Militos). pp. 619, 632. ISBN 978-960-8460-91-1.
^ "From the subways to the subway". Nathenas G., Kourbelis A., Vlastos Th., Kourouzidis S., Katsareas V., Karamanis P., Klonos A., Kokkinos N. Athens: Miletos. 2007. p. 170. ISBN 978-960-8460-91-1
^ New station at Taurus". The Step : p. 27. 12 February 1989
^ 130 Χρόνια Ηλεκτρικοί Σιδηρόδρομοι Αθηνών-Πειραιώς Α.Ε. (130 years of Athens-Piraeus electric railways). ISAP. 1999–2005. p. 272. ISBN 960-86477-0-3.

External links

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