Ταύρος -
Ελ. Βενιζέλος Tavros – El. Venizelos | |||||||||||
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General information | |||||||||||
Location |
Moschato-Tavros,
South Athens Greece | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 37°57′44″N 23°42′12″E / 37.962360°N 23.703330°E | ||||||||||
Managed by | STASY | ||||||||||
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Platforms | 2 | ||||||||||
Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
Construction | |||||||||||
Structure type | At-grade | ||||||||||
Accessible | Yes | ||||||||||
Key dates | |||||||||||
27 February 1869 | Line opened | ||||||||||
6 February 1989 | Station opened | ||||||||||
30 January 2004 | Station rebuilt [1] | ||||||||||
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Tavros, officially Tavros–Eleftherios Venizelos ( Greek: Ταύρος–Ελευθέριος Βενιζέλος) is a station on Line 1 of the Athens Metro, 6.171 km from the line's southern terminus at Piraeus. [2] It is located in the municipality of Tavros in the regional unit of South Athens, Attica, near the boundary with Kallithea. The station is also known as Tavros-Eleftherios Venizelou, after the former Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos.
The first proposals for a station were made in 1925, when engineer Alexander Verdelis demarcated the Harokopou station at almost the same location as part of his proposal to build a wider subway network for the capital. [3] Construction of the plant began in 1988, and opened on 6 February 1989 [4] at a cost of 200 million drachmas. The station was renovated in 2004 in the run-up to the Summer Olympics that year.
It has a central island platform serving two tracks and a reversing siding towards Kallithea station.
In the past the station was the southern terminus of a peak hour train service "Tavros-Ano Patissia", [5] later extended as "Tavros-Irini".