Pyrgos was the agricultural, commercial, and industrial centre of Elis. It was the first region in Greece to acquire a railway line ((after Athens) and had two terminals belonging to different companies. The oldest (on Taki Petropoulou Street) was built in 1882 and served the municipal railway line that connected Pyrgos with Katakolon, the main export port for the raisins of Elis. The station had a ticket sales office and sleeping accommodations for any employees on a night shift. The locomotives and the passenger carriages crossed the town on tramway tracks and were locally known as the “love trains” because passengers heading to the beach of Katakolon often found their sweethearts on them. The other station was built in the early 1890s by the Piraeus, Athens and Peloponnese Railways company that operated the line Patras-Pyrgos railway line. The old station closed in 1975.