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Enroute to Milie, the small train does one of the many photostops planned. This time the train is very short (two instead of the four max. summer coaches), because the entire fleet of the road (4 summer coaches) is split with another regular excursion train, which'll be pulled from a diesel after our train. Digital photo taken Sunday 8 June 2003. Copyright: Nick Fotis, nfotis@cs.ntua.gr

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Same time, same place - just trying a vertical composition. It's really hard to make a bad photo in this route :-) Digital photo taken in Sunday 8 June 2003 Copyright: Nick Fotis, nfotis@cs.ntua.gr

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An excursion train approaches Milies station in the Pilion mountain, near Volos. The chief engineer of Thessalian Railways was Evaristo de Cirico, father of well-known painter Giorgio de Cirico. It's not usual at all to see a line curving in a bridge, and people refer to this bridge as "De Cirico's bridge" today. The 0.60 meters narrow-gauge Volos-Milies line was 28 km long in its heyday, with maximum grade three percent. Nearly half of the line is closed since the seventies, and today the most scenic part is still available for excursions. A Tubize-built steam locomotive pulls that particular train, while another regular excursion train follows it, powered by a diesel locomotive. Digital photo and copyright by: Nick Fotis (nfotis@cs.ntua.gr)

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Steam locomotive 52 "Mileai" at Milies The locomotive was built in 1923 for the 60 cm Volos-Milies railway. It has been fully restored and is used for excursion trains on the line. Date: 10 August 1996 Photo by Gerasimos Maniatis (b94-3339@amalia.ee.upatras.gr)

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OSE - Greece Stored narrow gauge steam locomotives in Volos. As the narrow gauge lines Volos-Milies (600mm) and Volos-Velestino (1000mm) are still mainly in place, these could perhaps be used for tourist services. Volos, 07-05-2003 Digital photo by Marco van Uden

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OSE - Greece Stored narrow gauge steam locomotives in Volos. As the narrow gauge lines Volos-Milies (600mm) and Volos-Velestino (1000mm) are still mainly in place, these could perhaps be used for tourist services. Volos, 07-05-2003 Digital photo by Marco van Uden

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Hellenic Railways Organization (OSE) Old 600mm steam locomotive of Pelion Railways named "Elli" from Baldwin in 191 in Volos depot. Volos station Thessaly 3/12/2017 Image copyright: Dimitrios Papadopoulos

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There are two operating tank steam locomotives in the narrow gauge Pilion route. Locomotive "Miliai" in the foreground was built in 1903 by Tubize in Belgium, while in the background the locomotive "Jason" was built in 1912 by the company Haine St.Pierre (again in Belgium). Both locomotives have nearly 100 Hp horsepower and weight 21.2 metric tons, with maximum speed 30 km/h. In the background there's one of the two new Schoema diesels based in Ano Lechonia. Many railfans feel that the masquerading of the diesels to steam locomotives with a black shrouding was of dubious aesthetic value (to put it mildly...). In this photo, locomotive "Miliai" takes water from a small water tank in the Ano Lechonia station before preparing for a trip with German/Swiss railfans in the Sunday 8 June 2003. Digital photo and copyright: Nick Fotis, nfotis@cs.ntua.gr

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Steam train on the 60cm Volos - Milies touristic line at Ano Lehonia. October 1997 Photo by Theodoros Tsibloulis (theodor@vol.forthnet.gr)

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Steam Engine 'Milies' taking a break at the shed in Milies on a Sunday run between Ano Lechonia and Milies on the Pilio Railway. The 600 mm gauge Pilio Railway was closed in 1971, since when many proposals for a at least partial reopening have stalled. After receiving EU funding, the upper section was revived in 1996 and sees one pair of steam trains each summer Saturday and Sunday. August 1998. Photo and scan: Claus Eberhard (claus@eulog.de)