Nea Ionia station
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The Nea Ionia station is an ISAP
train station in Nea Ionia
, Greece
several kilometres north of Athens
. It is marked at the 17.923 km from the starting point in Piraeus
. It was also a train station that served from Lavriou Square and Strofyli ran by the Attica Railways
, it was spotted at km 7.340 from Lavriou Square. The station first opened as Podarades (Ποδαράδες) in which it came from an older name of the settlement in which later became the city of Nea Ionia by refugees from an area formerly called Ionia
in Asia Minor
in 1922. The station closed in 1938. In the same spot, the present ISAP station was opened on March 14, 1956 and uses the same name. It was the northernmost terminus of ISAP until March 4, 1957. The station was renovated in 2003. It features two platforms.
ISAP
I.S.A.P. is the acronym for the Athens-Piraeus Electric Railways , the oldest urban rapid transit system of Athens metropolitan area in Greece. It is the second-oldest underground metro system in the world, after the Metropolitan Railway, of 1863, now a part of the London Underground...
train station in Nea Ionia
Nea Ionia
Nea Ionia is a northern suburb of Athens, Greece, and a municipality of the Attica region. It has a surface train station . The suburb was named after Ionia, the region in Anatolia from which many Greeks migrated in the 1920s following the Population exchange between Greece and Turkey. It is...
, Greece
Greece
Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....
several kilometres north of Athens
Athens
Athens , is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state...
. It is marked at the 17.923 km from the starting point in Piraeus
Piraeus
Piraeus is a city in the region of Attica, Greece. Piraeus is located within the Athens Urban Area, 12 km southwest from its city center , and lies along the east coast of the Saronic Gulf....
. It was also a train station that served from Lavriou Square and Strofyli ran by the Attica Railways
Attica Railways
Attica Railways was a railway company which operated a metre gauge railway system in Attica, Greece.The contract between the Greek government and the Hellenic Company of Lavrion Metallurgies was signed in 1882...
, it was spotted at km 7.340 from Lavriou Square. The station first opened as Podarades (Ποδαράδες) in which it came from an older name of the settlement in which later became the city of Nea Ionia by refugees from an area formerly called Ionia
Ionia
Ionia is an ancient region of central coastal Anatolia in present-day Turkey, the region nearest İzmir, which was historically Smyrna. It consisted of the northernmost territories of the Ionian League of Greek settlements...
in Asia Minor
Asia Minor
Asia Minor is a geographical location at the westernmost protrusion of Asia, also called Anatolia, and corresponds to the western two thirds of the Asian part of Turkey...
in 1922. The station closed in 1938. In the same spot, the present ISAP station was opened on March 14, 1956 and uses the same name. It was the northernmost terminus of ISAP until March 4, 1957. The station was renovated in 2003. It features two platforms.