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Waking up the "beast"
The "beast" is the nickname for the steam train you see in the photo.The "beast" started working in the early 1900, used to transport the people who used to work at Lavrio (for the French company in those days), from Lavrio to Athens (about 70km).It used to travel through fields and because of the tremendous noise it made, the black smoke and it's size (very big at that time), the farmers who worked around those areas, thought tha t it was a beast.That is why it was named like that.The "beast" retired between 1950 and 1960, since then it was left at Markopoylos as a site.
Waking up the "beast"
The "beast" is the nickname for the steam train you see in the photo.The "beast" started working in the early 1900, used to transport the people who used to work at Lavrio (for the French company in those days), from Lavrio to Athens (about 70km).It used to travel through fields and because of the tremendous noise it made, the black smoke and it's size (very big at that time), the farmers who worked around those areas, thought tha t it was a beast.That is why it was named like that.The "beast" retired between 1950 and 1960, since then it was left at Markopoylos as a site.