Agios Andreas railway station

Agios Andreas railway station (Sidirodromikos Stathmos Agios Andreas) is a railway station in Kato Achaia in the northwestern Peloponnese, Greece. The station is on the former Patras–Kyparissia line However Since the suspension of regional services on the metre-gauge railways of the Peloponnese in 2011, the station is used only by local Proastiakos trains, served by Proastiakos Patras P1 & P2 Services.

The station was opened in December 1887 as Pyrgos Station and was the second railway station built in of the city after the then central one of Agios Dionysios. The two stations were initially open-air and were not connected by a railway line. The line to connect them passed through the centre of the city and was built in 1888, after disputes from residents and a change of design. In the same year, the construction of the railway line to Pyrgos continued, up to Kato Achaia, and its operation began in December 1888, as well as the official operation of the station. In fact, the first route was made on 15 December 1888. Until the union of the lines Patras-Athens and Patras-Pyrgos, through the centre of the city, the station of Agios Andreas was the central station of the city to Pyrgos. Later it was connected to the now inactive Patras-Kyparissia metric railway line. In 1970 OSE became the legal successor to the SEK, taking over responsibilities for most of Greece's rail infrastructure. On 1 January 1971, the station and most of Greek rail infrastructure were transferred to the Hellenic Railways Organisation S.A., a state-owned corporation. Freight traffic declined sharply when the state-imposed monopoly of OSE for the transport of agricultural products and fertilisers ended in the early 1990s. Many small stations of the network with little passenger traffic were closed down. In 2005 operations from the station were suspended due to the reconstruction works of the OSE railway network in the region. In 2009, with the Greek debt crisis unfolding OSE's Management was forced to reduce services across the network. Timetables were cut back, and routes closed as the government-run entity attempted to re

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