Greece unveils railway.gov.gr, a real-time train tracking platform, in Piraeus with Mitsotakis present

Platform launch

The railway.gov.gr platform was officially presented on Tuesday, 10 November 2026, at a ceremony held in the old depot of the Piraeus-Peloponnese railway line in Piraeus. The event was organised by Hellenic Railways (OSE) and attended by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, along with Transport and Infrastructure Minister Christos Dimas, Digital Governance Minister Dimitris Papastergiou and several deputy ministers. According to the reports, the platform has been in operation since 25 February 2026, and the ceremony marked its official unveiling and the promotion of its capabilities.

The system tracks the position of trains on the national rail network using GNSS satellite positioning and the HEPOS network of the Hellenic Cadastre. Position data is refreshed every second and displayed on an interactive map that will eventually show all trains and the full rail network with every station. Data is encrypted with the AES-256 protocol. The platform also gradually builds a single digital database linking traffic, network, rolling stock, staff, certifications and incident monitoring for the railway's operational teams.

Funding and donation

The Union of Greek Shipowners signed a donation agreement with the Greek state in December 2025 worth 2,489,409 euros, covering the procurement and installation of the new positioning system on all railway trains. Donors are to be honoured at the event. Reports describe the system as the first of its kind to be applied at pan-European level.

Mitsotakis on safety and the Tempi tragedy

In his speech, Mitsotakis tied the project to the Tempi railway disaster, saying:

“We will do whatever is in our power so that we never again live through a tragedy like this one.”

He described the platform as an additional layer of safety that operates alongside the existing systems of the railway network rather than replacing them. He also stressed the use of artificial intelligence to process communications between train drivers and station masters. He recalled asking why a citizen could track a food delivery but not a train carrying hundreds of passengers, and said the answer had proved far more complex than he expected.

“It looks more like a startup company than a state application.”

New trains

Mitsotakis announced that the first two new trains of Hellenic Train have already been received and will join the network from the beginning of 2027. He said that users of the Greek railway would then notice that something has fundamentally changed.