The OSE ticketing service did not accept her student pass. So 22-year-old Eleni M. from Veria, found herself traveling in the 7th and not the second carriage.

The 22-year-old from Veria arrived in Athens from London by air. Due to a flight delay, he did not catch the afternoon train to Thessaloniki. So he boarded the dinner. He initially asked to travel in a cabin. In the second carriage. He finally found himself in carriage No. 7.

The whole train is full of people. In the vast majority of them, young girls and boys. Students who have just finished the exam period and were returning for a few days to their homes and families.

“We stopped at Paleofarsala. We were told that there is a load on the lines. We didn’t worry. We just waited. Then the train started. We arrived in Larissa. I was reading a book. The young man who was sitting next to me told me: “The controller, speaking on the radio, was saying “is it better to put people on buses?”.

We didn’t take it as anything to worry about. We thought it was about passenger crowd management.

About 10 minutes later we felt the first jolt… And then a second even stronger one. A young man – I don’t know how – found himself rolling on the floor… from one end of the carriage to the other. Others knocked on the tables, on the seats… I was held by a woman… I thank her…

Fortunately the wagon was electrified. The doors opened…. we went down With the lenses of the cell phones we were looking to see where we were. We climbed until we got to the road.

From the start of the train, explosions were heard. The front carriages were on fire…»

It is the description of a 22-year-old girl who was on the train.