Amyntaio Railway Station

The Amyntaio railway station (Sidirodromikós stathmós Amyntaio) is the railway station of Amyntaio in West Macedonia, Greece. The station is located close to the center of the settlement, on the Thessaloniki–Bitola railway, 152.2 kilometres (94.6 mi) from Thessaloniki, and is severed by Local services to Thessaloniki and Florina. The station is served (since 9 September 2007) by the Thessaloniki Regional Railway (formerly the Suburban Railway). It was servered by trains on the Kozani–Amyntaio line; however these have been suspended since 2009. Opened in June 1894 as Sorovits railway station, romanized: Sidirodromikós stathmós Sorovits) in what was then the Ottoman Empire at the completion of the Société du Chemin de Fer ottoman Salonique-Monastir, a branchline of the Chemins de fer Orientaux from Thessaloniki to Bitola. During this period, Northern Greece and the southern Balkans where still under Ottoman rule. Amyntaio was annexed by Greece on 18 October 1912 during the First Balkan War. On 17 October 1925 The Greek government purchased the Greek sections of the former Salonica Monastir railway, and the railway 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 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.

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