Decauville Railway Mesonisi – Alona
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The Decauville train Mesonisi-Alona was around 1915 a military - narrow-gauge railway in Greece .
use
The narrow-gauge Decauville railway connected the Mesonisi station with the villages of Marina, Perasma and Alona (then: Armensko). During the First World War , the French army had its largest logistics center in the region in Marina , including an airfield and a train station. Deliveries came from the port of Thessaloniki by normal train to Messonissi, in order to then be sent to the Saloniki front by narrow-gauge railway . In Alona there was a material ropeway for the onward transport of supplies to Pisoderi above the Small and Large Prespa Lakes . Today only a few stone foundations testify to the existence of this rail network.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Vestiges de l'Armée d'Orient en Grèce du Nord: Réseau Decauville et téléférique à Alona.
- ↑ Vlasidis: Railway lines for the battlefields.
- ↑ Photo of the bridge piers.
Coordinates: 40 ° 46 ′ 32.6 ″ N , 21 ° 19 ′ 20.3 ″ E