The former porter, who previously worked for the Ministry of Education and then completed a training course a few months ago, is the same 60-year-old stationmaster who was on duty at Larisa station on the night of the Tempi train collision.
It’s good that he wasn’t put in charge of air traffic at Eleftherios Venizelos airport. However, the results are in…
The 60-year-old stationmaster worked as a porter for 10 years, according to TLive. ose, carrying suitcases from trains arriving and departing from stations. Then he transferred to a minor official in the Ministry of Education and for another 10 years he carried not suitcases, but books …
Finally, he was again transferred to the OSE, and he has been working as the head of the station since the end of January, as evidenced by his post on the social network.
Greek journalists learned that the head of the Larisa station made a post on social media on January 24, writing that he had received a certificate of completion of the course and asked to wish him a “good start”, which means that he took up his duties about a month ago.
As his colleague stated, he was seconded employee of the Ministry of Educationrecently assumed the position of stationmaster and was on duty at the time tragedy in tempoAnd.
As it became known, the head of the station Larisa was arrested today and charged with negligent murder (Article 302 of the Greek Criminal Code), negligent bodily harm (314 PC) and dangerous interference with the operation of means of transport (291 PC), since he is considered the culprit accidents.
He claims that he switched the switch to prevent the passenger train from entering the same line as the freight train, but this did not happen, i.e. it was a technical problem, not human negligence.
His colleague said on a TV show. “The accident is a purely human error. He forgot to turn the switch to the right track. If he had turned the switch, the train would have gone to the right track. And he drove into the oncoming line, where the freight train was going.”
When asked if the stationmaster knew that a freight train was coming, he replied: “I knew.” “How I got tangled up in this, I don’t know,” he added. He clarified that they were together all night. “He was stunned, he was confused,” his colleague said.
The Tempi tragedy highlights the lack of modern telecontrol and signaling systems that are on every contemporary European railway. These are the systems of the trans-European system ERTMS (European Railways Traffic Management System), which consists of the ETCS (European Traffic Control System) and GSM-R (Global System Mobile for Rail) systems. If this system works, then train traffic is managed in a modern way, since data on the movement of trains along the lines is controlled digitally and in real time. If this system worked, then there would be a timely notification of all station chiefs, the traffic center and drivers.
However, in Greece, even the arrows had to be switched manually … Not to mention about automatic motion control…
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