UNION OF OTHOMAN RAILWAYS OF THESSALONIKI-MONASTIRI: On 28 October 1890, a contract was signed between Raif Pasha as Minister of Commerce of the Othoman Government and Alfred Kaulla director of the Wurttembergische Vereinsbank of Stuttgart, for the construction and operation of a regular-gauge railway line (1,435 meters) that would connect Thessaloniki with Monastiri (today's name Bitola) 219 km long. For this reason, in 1890 the company Societe du Chemin de Fer Ottoman Salonique - Monastir S.M. (Union of Othoman Railways of Thessaloniki-Monastiri) was founded with the main shareholder company CO. Construction works began in June 1891 and were completed in 1894. When the company began the holding of the line in Thessaloniki, the company did not have its own station, but used that of the CO for the line to Skopje. With the landing of the allied forces in Thessaloniki on 15 October 1915 during world war I, the assumption and control of the line by the Greek Railways began, but the property still belonged to S.M. In June 1916 the control and command of the line came to the allied troops (English and French) and in February 1920 the line was officially delivered to the Greek State, which acquired it in 1925, when the company ceased to exist.