After the disaster, Greek trains will 'gradually' restart on March 22. Government

Rail traffic will resume "gradually" in Greece from March 22 as the country reels from its deadliest train crash, the transport minister said on Tuesday. Fifty-seven people, many of them students, were killed when a passenger train and freight train collided head-on in central Greece on February 28. Four railway officials have been charged, but public anger has focused on long-running mismanagement of the network and the country has been rocked by a series of sometimes violent mass protests. On Sunday, about 12,000 demonstrators gathered outside parliament, while 5,000 took to the streets of the second city Thessaloniki, police said. In Athens, at least two protesters could be seen carrying a placard that read "murderers" among the thousands who marched through the streets Sunday.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has come under fire for initially pointing to "human error" for the accident and blaming the station master on duty at the time, who allegedly routed the trains onto the same stretch of track by accident. However, railway unions had long been warning about problems on the creaking, understaffed train network and main opposition leader Alexis Tsipras has also accused the government of not paying any heed to their repeated warnings over the past two years.