Five weeks after Greece’s worst rail disaster, which killed 57 people, a partial service resumed on Monday on the main train line linking Athens and Thessaloniki, the country’s second city.
The route was the scene of a head-on collision on February 28 between a freight train and a passenger train with more than 350 people on board, many of them young students.
The crash triggered weeks of angry protests and is set to weigh heavily on national polls in May, in which Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is seeking re-election.
In a bid to reassure passengers, Transport Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis travelled on the first train between Athens and the central town of Kalambaka on Monday morning,
