A branch line to Myloi in the first railway contract

1882 Proven

In 1882 the government of Charilaos Trikoupis signed the contract for the Peloponnese railway. Besides the main line it included two branches: Corinth–Argos–Nafplio and Argos–Myloi.

Where

Myloi (the village), Argos

Who

Charilaos Trikoupis

Threads

Railway

Certainty

Proven confirmed by primary sources

Sources

• D. A. Paraskevopoulos, Ατμοκίνηση στην Ελλάδα του 19ου αιώνα (PhD thesis, 2014), p. 179 Open (opens in a new tab)

Also in this period

1. 1884

   A locomotive called ΜΥΛΟΙ

   In 1884 Krauss in Munich built five small tank engines for the Peloponnese railway. Each got a name, and one of them was called ΜΥΛΟΙ. Engines of this series later worked the short branch Nafplio–Argos–Myloi.

   ProvenRailway