The little train of Pelion EN

direction : Lagdaris George
camera : Kordelas Dimitris
ediding : Xafara Athanasia
text : Apostolos Finikopoulos
original music: Andreas Katsigiannis

A documentary with English subtitles, for the legendary little train of Pelion.
The narrow gauge Little Train of Pelion [gauge of 60 cm] started operating between Volos and Lehonia in 1895 and between Lehonia and Milies in 1903, covering a total distance of approximately 29 klm. It was ingeniously designed and constructed by the Italian engineer Evaristo de Chirico, father of the world renowned surrealist painter Giorgio de Chirico, who, born and schooled in the area, drew his thematology for the metaphysical period of his work especially from his childhood memories of the mountain of the Centaurs and Argonauts. The train was instrumental in the economic and cultural development