Places
Station of the Southern Greece Railways
4 events
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June 1890
The Southern Greece Railways (ΣΜΕ) are founded
A new company was set up to run the line from Myloi: the Company of the Southern Railways of Greece, with the banker Andreas Syngros as chairman. Rolin transferred his rights to it.
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17 August 1891
Regular trains from Myloi to Tripoli
From 17 August 1891 (5 August old style) the line was open to the public. The Southern Greece Railways' timetable had a train leaving Myloi at 5.05 pm, arriving in Tripoli at 7.55, with stops at Andritsa, Achladokampos,…
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29 December 1891
The Belgian company is dropped; the Peloponnese railway takes over
In December 1891 the Belgian company was declared to have forfeited its rights. A new contract gave the Piraeus–Athens–Peloponnese Railways (ΣΠΑΠ) the completion of Tripoli–Diavolitsi and the operation of the whole line…
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February 1892
The Peloponnese railway runs the trains from Myloi
In February 1892 the government of Theodoros Deligiannis handed the completion and operation of the line to the ΣΠΑΠ, probably from 1 February. From then on one company ran both the line from Argos and the line into the…
People
- Andreas Syngros Banker, chairman of the Southern Greece Railways
- Ernest Rolin Belgian contractor of the Myloi–Kalamata railway
- Theodoros Deligiannis Prime Minister of Greece