Tavros, officially Tavros–Eleftherios Venizelos ( el, Ταύρος–Ελευθέριος Βενιζέλος) is a station on

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of the Athens Metro, 6.171 km from the line's southern terminus at Piraeus. It is located in the municipality of Tavros, near the boundary with

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. The station is also known as Tavros-Eleftherios Venizelou, after the former Prime Minister

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History

The first proposals for a station were made in 1925, when engineer

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demarcated the Harokopou station at almost the same location as part of his proposal to build a wider subway network for the

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. Construction of the plant began in 1988, and opened on 6 February 1989 at a cost of 200 million

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. The station was renovated in 2004 in the run-up to the

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that year.

Facilities

It has a central island platform serving two tracks and a reversing siding towards Kallithea station.

Services

In the past the station was the southern terminus of a peak hour train service "Tavros-Ano Patissia", later extended as "Tavros-Irini".

References

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