Author: junitop

The station master involved in Greece’s worst-ever train disaster will appear in court on Saturday, as mass protests broke out over the crash that killed at least 57 people. Thousands of protesters have demonstrated across the country since Tuesday’s collision between a passenger train and a freight train, with public anger mounting over the government’s failure to manage the rail network. The 59-year-old station master at Larissa, central Greece, has admitted responsibility for the accident, which saw the two trains run along the same track for several kilometres. The train was carrying many students returning from a holiday weekend and at…