42 dead in Tempi, 25 missing

The death toll has reached 42 and the number of missing people has reached 25 as a result of the tragic incident in Tempi, some of whom are missing, unfortunately, will be added to the death toll in the largest railway accident, which was due to omissions and indifference of government officials .

Government officials such as Minister of Transport K. Karamanlis are now shedding crocodile tears instead of resigning and asking for “forgiveness” from the victims and their families! They try arresting the stationmaster put on him all the responsibility (of course, he is also responsible, like any “switchman”) for the tragedy for which they bear full responsibility.

They got so many billions of euros from EU for the modernization of the railways, and the network is still in the era of Charilaos Trikoupis, reports pronews.gr.

Despite repeated claims by government officials over the past decade, the country’s rail network is still in a primitive state. President of the Machinist’s Union ose Kostas Genidunias declaredthat the electronic control system of the Athens-Thessaloniki railway has not been working for many years. He also mentioned that various network management interventions in terms of routes are done manually. That is, the switchman receives an order from the head of the station, goes to the point and moves the arrows to one or another branch with levers. And so it happened on Tuesday evening by order of the head of the station Larisa.

The stationmaster then notifies the train driver by telephone and receives an order to enter or leave that track. There is no digital system for automated management of the railway network. More precisely, it exists, but has not been working for many years.

The question that comes up and is also asked by the president of the OSE machinists is obviously what exactly would K. Mitsotakis himself in the so-called “Centre for Signaling and Remote Control of the Northern Greek Railway Network” which planned … to open today, on the day of the tragedy, on Wednesday, March 1.

Incredibly, there is no remote network management of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, no digitalization of network management of Western Macedonia, nor electronic digital control of the Athens-Thessaloniki line! Four years of management and philosophy at all levels: “Let him go where he goes.”

Now K. Mitsotakis and K. Karamanlis are “examining” their work at the site of the tragedy.

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