Police officer: I also have enough people that need to be moved away from the scene. They have fallen, they also inform me about PPC cables.
Station master: We’ve cut the power.
Police officer: Nice, nice… I want you to send buses.
Station master: Yes, yes now… we’ll talk, half a minute.
Police officer: Send because there are too many people and they are all on the lines and PPC cables have also fallen.
Station master: Hi, it’s done.
Police officer: okay? Come on.
It is one of the revealing audio documents. It is the fateful night, with dead and wounded and untold pain and even whether the power has been cut on the fateful route is a question.
Tempi: They did not know the number of passengers
As for the number of passengers…complete ignorance.
Station master: you are welcome
Police officer: Mr. Stationmaster?
Station master: Yes
Police officer: From 100
Station master: Yes
Police officer: Tell me a little bit… Do we have information from the train drivers?
Station master: The 63503 does not. Thessaloniki will know. From now on, only one, a certain Mr. Koutsuba.
Police officer: Did Mr. Koutsoubas pick up the phone? We talked;
Station master: No, no no…
Police officer: No; Have we sent buses up? Should we pick them up?
Station master: I have notified. We have also said the tickets inside, over here where they are.
Police officer: Yes Yes
Station master: To send
Police officer: Yes
Station master: Now what, below Athens, the central ones, I don’t know what happened. What are they doing?
Police officer: And if we know the number of passengers in the…
Station master: Hellenic Train knows this, I don’t.
Police officer: Will Athens send the buses?
Station master: No. From here, from here, from here…
Police officer: Yes
With the number of passengers unknown, it is unknown what the coach needs are, how many they are looking for, what to do.
Tempe: No one knew where the wounded would go
The policeman is now losing his cool about how many there are, how many he’s looking for and where to take them? He doesn’t get an answer.
Station master: Yes
Police officer: Tell me a little. Those who will be picked up by buses, where will you take them? I have people who pick me up, I also have the 112 line which is always busy, I have parents of children who are inside. Where will they all go, all this world? Where are you going to take them? He’s got a lot of wounded up there.
Station master: Yes Yes Yes
Police officer: I have informed EKAV, I have informed everyone.
Station master: Done
Police officer: But I want to know where they will go. Plus, if you send a bus, blankets, water.
Station master: Done, ok, yes, yes
Police officer: Come on
The chaos continues
And the chaos has no end, as does the agony. Dejected, he will say at the end, “asto”.
Station master: Yes
Police officer: Here you go. Aren’t you from OSE?
Station master: Yes Yes
Police officer: Tell me, we talked together
Station master: I spoke now. Passenger list we only have electronically it says… the tickets
Police officer: Welcome, leave it, I will speak directly
Station master: Done
Police officer: Thanks, hello
Call waiting
The phone they have given the police….just buzzes.
Police officer: Mr. station master?
Station master: Yes
Police officer: What buses were finally leaving and where?
Station master: I don’t know which buses. I don’t know, do those from Athens know this?
Police officer: Yes, but the phone you give me from Athens puts me on hold. Give me a line to speak
Station master: This is. What wait, are they talking?
Police officer: “Press one and press two”
Station master: For sure;
Police officer: Yes, you gave me a call center. The business center of Athens, is this the phone you are talking to?
Station master: No business, where it’s for the tickets, for the passengers, got it?
Police officer: Your General is there at the event and asks “where did the people go”. I can’t know where your buses go. Learn a little please.
Station master: OK OK. I will call this number.
Police officer: But call me…
No one answers
As unimaginable as it may seem, they are looking for a phone, looking for someone to answer simple questions but no one.
Police officer: Tell me a little bit, I’m calling from the Traffic Department, from 100. Are the buses that left for Thessaloniki tourist and where will they arrive?
Station master: I have no information about these buses anything
Police officer: Who mobilized these?
Station master: Η Hellenic Train
Police officer: Where can we turn to?
Station master: I gave a phone call before
Police officer: Can you give it to me too please?
Station master: Just a minute to look at it again
“Icing on the cake” is the search for the number of passengers.
Police officer: Give me a phone number, who should I contact in Athens for a passenger list, do you have a picture?
Station master: Aaah
Police officer: Did the train stop here in Larissa?
Station master: Passenger list huh? These now probably from RT. 2…2 Let me find it… 213
Police officer: It started from Athens-Lamia
Station master: Lamia- Paleofarsalo- Larissa
In the middle of this chaos, with superhuman efforts, the rescue attempt was made, just like “after where it comes out”.
Minute by minute who contacted the Larissa station
LIVE NEWS presents minute by minute who contacted the Larissa station.
23:13: Traction Regulator – power supply problem
23: 14: First passenger call without answer
23: 18: First commercial call with no answer
23: 24: Larissa informs Athens about a problem with the electricity supply
23:41: Fire department informs Larisa about derailment
23: 42: Athens informs Larissa of a conflict
23: 46: Police call Larissa – ask for information (station master denies collision)
23:57: Police call Larissa – informs that there is a conflict
The conversation with the Fire Department on 23:41
The station master already knows what has happened when he receives a call from the Fire Department and the police.
Larissa Station Master: Yes
Fire Department: Yes, hello, from the fire department
Larissa Station Master: Hmm…
Fire Department: Do you know that? We have a train derailment, near the PAOK monument.
Larissa Station Master: Aman…
Fire Department: Yes. You have to turn off currents… current… these… whatever, I don’t know what you should do either… I am sending forces.
Larissa Station Master: Is there a train derailment there?
Fire Department: Yes
Larissa Station Master: Well.
Fire Department: Is the current to Thessaloniki but also the other itineraries a little bit, see them a little bit, okay?
Stationmaster of Larisa: Yes, yes, yes, it did. Okay.
Fire Department: Thank you very much
Larissa Station Master: Thanks a lot me too, hello.
The conversation with the police on 23: 46
Larissa Station Master: Yes.
Police: Yes. Out of 100. Do you have any idea what exactly is going on? What exactly has happened at the scene?
Larissa Station Master: I don’t know what… Whatever I can tell you, I don’t know. Now the fire department called me that there was a derailment… Now there was a train going up and one going down. Now which of the two, I don’t know anything either. I don’t know anything yet. Nor… Because we call them on the radio and they are not heard. And now we’re trying to get the numbers from the train drivers to see what’s going on.
Police: Is there any chance it could be a train with a train?
Larissa Station Master: You probably don’t know… No. Of course not.
Police: Ah… well. Once you have a picture give us a call.
Larissa Station Master: Yes, yes. Yes, yes. Done.
The update on the collision at 23:57
Larissa Station Master: You are welcome.
Police: Good Evening. From 100.
Larissa Station Master: Yes.
Police: Most likely two trains have collided…
Larissa Station Master: This. That’s what they say to me now. I don’t know anything yet. What happened…
Police: Yes. Stop another train from getting off or getting on.
Larissa Station Master: Nothing. No. No. Done.
Police: Okay;
Larissa Station Master: Yes Yes.
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