The railway station of Drama bears a strong Central European stamp. It was built in 1895 by the Société du Chemin de Fer Ottoman Jonction Salonique-Constantinople to serve the Thessaloniki-Dedeağaç (Alexandroupoli) line. The original passenger building consisted of a ground floor, but another one was added later due to heavy traffic. Passenger amenities included a buffet. In 1916 a gloomy crowd gathered here to bid farewell to the officers and soldiers of the Greek Army's IV Army Corps. In one of the darkest pages of the contemporary history of the country, the Greek government, in accordance with Entente and the Germans, had allowed German and Bulgarian forces to occupy eastern Macedonia without a fight. Furthermore, the 6,000 men of the IV Army Corps surrendered to the Germans, who moved them by rail to Görlitz in Saxony land, Germany. They remained interned there until the end of the First World War. The facilities of the Drama station survive in their original form, although in poor condition.