Afidnes railway station
station on the Proastiakos railway of Athens, Greece
Afidnes railway station (Greek: Σιδηροδρομικός Σταθμός Αφιδνών, Sidirodromikos Stathmos Afidnon), also known as Afidnai on signage, is a station on the Piraeus–Platy railway line in Afidnes, in the northern part of the Athens metropolitan area, in the municipality of Oropos, East Attica, Greece. It was inaugurated on 8 March 1904 and reopened on 6 May 2005. It is owned by OSE, however services are provided by Hellenic Train through the Athens Suburban Railway from Athens to Chalcis. The station was featured in a 1974 episode of the YENED Greek soap opera Border Station (Μεθοριακός Σταθμός).
History
The Station opened on 8 March 1904 as Kiourka railway station (Greek: Σιδηροδρομικός σταθμός Κιούρκα, romanized: Sidirodromikós stathmós Kiourka), in what was then the Central Greece on what was a branch line of the Piraeus, Demerli & Frontiers Railway. The name reflects the older name for the area. After the station opened, a new settlement arose near it named Stathmos Afidnon ("Afidnes station"). In 1920 the station and most of the standard gauge railways in Greece came under the control of the Hellenic State Railways (SEK). During the Axis occupation of Greece (1941–44), Athens was controlled by the German military, and the line was used for the transport of troops and weapons. During the occupation (and especially during German withdrawal in 1944), the network was severely damaged by both the German army and Greek resistance groups.
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