[3] The station opened on 8 March 1904[citation needed], along with the rest of the railway line connecting Piraeus and Athens with the city of Larisa.

[6] During the Axis occupation of Greece (1941–44), Athens was controlled by German military forces, and the line was used for the transport of troops and weapons.

Due to the civil war, the track and rolling stock took some time to replace, with normal service levels resumed around 1948.

Freight traffic declined sharply when the state-imposed OSE monopoly for the transport of agricultural products and fertilisers ended in the early 1990s.

The station closed on 10 February 2018 for major engineering works linked to the construction of the new high-speed line Athens-Thessaloniki,[10] reopening in July 2018.