Agios Panteleimonas railway station

Agios Panteleimonas railway station is a railway halt in Agios Panteleimonas, a village in West Macedonia, Greece. The station is located about 300 metres (330 yd) north from the center of the settlement, on the Thessaloniki–Bitola railway, 152.2 kilometres (94.6 mi) from Thessaloniki, and is served by Line T2 of the Thessaloniki Regional Railway (formerly the Suburban Railway).

Agios Panteleimonas opened in June 1894 as Pateli, in what was then part of the Ottoman Empire. Upon opening, the station was part of the Salonique-Monastir branch line of the Chemins de fer Orientaux, from Thessaloniki to Bitola. Agios Panteleimonas was annexed by Greece on 18 October 1912 during the First Balkan War. On 17 October 1925, the Greek government purchased the station along with the Greek section of the Salonique-Monastir line, and the station became part of the Hellenic State Railways, with the remaining section north of Florina seeded to Yugoslavia. After the station, along with the settlement, was renamed Amyntaio In 1926, the village and the station was renamed Agios Panteleimonas. After the Second World War, it was decided to connect the town of Kozani to the railway network through Amyntaio and the original plan for a connection with Thessaly was abandoned. Industrial branch lines connect to the PPC power plants of Ptolemais and Agios Dimitrios, normally used by freight trains carrying light fuel oil. Another branch line to the former fertilizer plant of AEVAL is disused. The line is also used by freight trains carrying sugar beets from the Hellenic Sugar Industry factory to Platy. In January 1951, construction started on a line to Kozani. work was completed in 1954, with the inauguration on 30 January 1955 (1955-01-30). The line served the town of Ptolemaida, and connected to the lignite-fired power plants of Public Power Corporation at Komanos freight station. Its construction was completed in December 1954. The terminal station was Kozani. 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 o

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