The picturesque Lechonia-Milies route has two remarkable features. It was built in 600 mm (1 ft 11 5⁄8 in) narrow gauge, while the tracks on the straight steel bridge over the Taxiarchis gorge just outside the village of Milies, form a curve! This bridge is named after Evaristo de Chirico, the director of Thessaly Railways. The construction of the line was nothing short of a small feat of engineering. Hundreds of Greeks and foreign workers (mostly Italians) struggled with the cold and snow of winter, the heat and fever of summer, the low wages and the endless hours of work (even on Sundays) to lay sixteen kilometres of rails and to build eight bridges (seven in stone and one in steel). The result of these hard working conditions was the strikes of workers that delayed the delivery of the project. The unofficial inauguration took place on July 2, 1903. The simple one-story station building in Milies was supposed to be temporary, but it was never replaced.