The railway station of Skydra on the Thessaloniki–Bitola railway was inaugurated in 1894. The French ordered the construction of the station building in 1916. The French came to Macedonia during the First World War to support the Serbian army against the Austrians. The limited capacity of the existing railways and the absence of roads complicated efforts to supply the soldiers at the front. The French headquarters in Thessaloniki decided to build a decauville railway (a light and narrow gauge pioneered by Paul Decauville) from Skydra to the front lines in the Kajmakčalan mountain range. Serbian soldiers constructed the decauville line and the station building. It is the only operational decauville station in Greece. In the 1950s trains full of canned peaches departed for the German market from Skydra.