The original railway station of Florina was nowhere near the city. The line passed through Mesonisi, well to the east of Florina. Back then the station of Mesonisi was called “Florina”. Like most stations on the Thessaloniki-Bitola line, it did not have a passenger platform or a canopy, while the name of the station was written in Turkish and French. The Greek army liberated Florina on November 7, 1912 and found the station packed with injured Ottoman soldiers. The Greeks also managed to capture five locomotives and three hundred wagons full of materiel. The distance from the city was a serious problem, so the community demanded that the government authorize the construction of a branch line to connect the real Florina to the Thessaloniki-Bitola line. The new station opened in 1931. The facilities included a guest house for passengers, which today houses the Florina Art Gallery.