Hellenic Railways Organisation
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| state-owned company | |
| Industry | Rail transport |
| Founded | 1 January 1971 |
| Headquarters | Athens, Greece |
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Key people
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OSE Group President & Managing Director: Athanasios Vourdas |
| Products | Rail transport |
| Revenue |
 € 105,439,000 |
 € -576,382,000 |
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€ -950,269,000 |
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| Subsidiaries | Erga OSE (Ergose) |
| Website | www |
| Track gauge | 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) |
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OSE Group President & Managing Director:
P. Theofanopoulos
The Hellenic Railways Organization or OSE (Greek: Οργανισμός Σιδηροδρόμων Ελλάδος or Ο.Σ.Ε.) is the Greek national railway company which owns, maintains and operates all railway infrastructure in Greece with the exception of Athens' rapid transit lines. Train services on these lines are run by TrainOSE S.A., a former OSE subsidiary. In addition OSE owns and maintains the rolling stock used by TrainOSE and maintains preserved special rolling stock, withdrawn locomotives and railcars. OSE was founded in 1971, taking over from the Hellenic State Railways, which was founded in 1920.
As in most European Union countries, administration of the railway infrastructure is separate from the railway operating companies using the network to provide passenger and freight transportation services. Up until November 2010, company EDISY S.A. was the actual manager of the Greek national railway infrastructure until it became a subsidiary of OSE. Specifically on 29 November 2010 EDISY S.A. was merged back into the parent company OSE S.A., which is today the manager of the rail infrastructure of Greece.
The major lines of the Greek railway network consist of the mostly electrified standard gauge double track line from Piraeus-Athens to northern Greece-Thessaloniki, a single track electrified line from Thessaloniki to Idomeni (at the border with the Republic of Macedonia) and the mixed-gauge line from Athens to Peloponnese. Almost all other lines link directly with these two lines. The main line of the Greek Railway System from Athens to Thessaloniki, covers a distance of 520 kilometres (320 mi).
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