Located in the centre of Olympia, the station was opened in 1891 by the Pyrgos-Katakolo Railway Company (SPK), (now part of OSE).

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.

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

The signal platform has outside seating but no Dot-matrix display departure and arrival screens or timetable poster boards for passenger information.