Arnissa railway station
Arnissa railway station () is the railway station of Arnissa in West Macedonia, Greece. The station is located within the center of the settlement, on the Thessaloniki–Bitola railway, from Thessaloniki, and is severed by both Local and Proastiakos Services. History Opened in June 1894 as Ostrovon railway station () in what was then the Ottoman Empire at the completion of the Société du Chemin de Fer ottoman Salonique-Monastir, a branchline of the Chemins de fer Orientaux from Thessaloniki to Bitola. During this period, Northern Greece and the southern Balkans were still under Ottoman rule, and Skydras was known as Vertekop. Skydra was annexed by Greece on 18 October 1912 during the First Balkan War. During 1913, the Macedonian fighter Georgios Dikonymos-Makris served as the stationmaster, who, in the same year, contributed to the extermination of the important comitatist Vasil Tsekalarov. On 17 October 1925, The Greek government purchased the Greek sections of the former Salonica Monastir railway, and the railway became part of the Hellenic State Railways, with the remaining section north of Florina seeded to Yugoslavia. In 1926 the station, along with the settlement, was renamed Arnissa. In 1970, OSE became the legal successor to the SEK, taking over