Following a period dominated by the motor car, slowly but surely the railway, linking Volos with other large towns throughout Greece, is being modernised. The picturesque station of Evaristo De Chirico, whose architecture recalls the Balkans, Orient Express and Central Europe, is filling once again with travellers. New, modern and comfortable railway carriages carry the passenger direct to Athens and Salonica.

It is planned to reopen the renowned "Pelion mini railway" as a tourist attraction and once again "old smudgy", with its steam engines repaired, will set out from the city. Travelling a verdant dreamlike route over sturdy iron and stone bridges spanning deep gullies and gorges, it will arrive at the romantic little stations of the villages of Mt Pelion which are impatiently waiting its familiar whistle...