Kalavryta railway station

Kalavryta railway station is a station in Kalavryta, Achaea, Greece. It is located just North of village. It was opened on 10 March 1896. The station is served by the Diakopto–Kalavryta railway a rack railway .

The Station opened on 10 March 1896, on what was a branch line of the Piraeus, Athens & Peloponnese Railways when the 750 mm gauge line was completed in 1895. The line opened under the government of Theodoros Diligiannis however, work had been artharased by Charilaos Trikoupis government, under the grand project of connecting all of Greece by rail. The French company ATON with Italian craftsmen's assistant, who had acquired great experience in similar projects in the Alps, built the line. The construction of the network began in 1889 and was completed in 1895. Due to growing debts, the SPAP came under government control between 1939 and 1940. During the Axis occupation of Greece , Athens was controlled by German military forces, and the line used for the transport of troops and weapons. During the occupation , the network was severely damaged by both the German army and Greek resistance groups. The track and rolling stock replacement took time following the civil war, with normal service levels resumed around 1948. In 1954 SPAP was nationalized once more. In 1962 the SPAP was amalgamated into SEK. 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 the Greek rail infrastructure was 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.

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