While at that time, the practice of compulsory work was still in use, labour was cheap in rural Macedonia, and the engineers were reported to be enthusiastically welcomed.

[8] In 1896 the Salonica Monastir line was constructed to allow trains from Bitola to continue onwards to Thessaloniki without the need to reverse north of Mesonisi.

In the early 1920s, effects were made to extend the line to Florina, now cut off from the greek railway network.

Construction took around three years due in part to delays and funding issues, which had grown to 10 million drachmas (double the original estimate).

On 1 January 1971, the station and most of the Greek rail infrastructure were 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.

In 2009, with the Greek debt crisis unfolding OSE's Management was forced to reduce services across the network.

Timetables were cut back, and routes closed as the government-run entity attempted to reduce overheads.