The Peloponnese Railway that connected Athens all the way to Ancient Olympia before Greece’s economic crisis led it to being shut down in 2011 could be revived with the help of Switzerland.

A plan to revive the abandoned meter gauge railway line in the Peloponnese as a tourist attraction and also carry general passenger traffic got a boost when Swiss Ambassador Stefan Estermann said his country would take part.

That was in a meeting he had with the President of the Hellenic Railways Organization (OSE) Giannos Grammatidis, said Greece’s state-run Athens Macedonia News Agency (AMNA) about the plan.

Estermann reportedly assured Swiss support for a feasibility study that is currently underway and whose findings will be discussed at a meeting of all the involved parties in the major tourist attraction Naufplio in December.

He also said he would reach out to Swiss officials with expertise in railways, especially metric mountain systems, the train’s former route having also included stops at Corinth, Kalamata, Mycenae and Olympia.

Grammatidis also briefed the Regional Governors off Western Greece Nektarios Farmakis and the Peloponnese Dimitrios Ptochos about joint coordinated actions related to the above project, AMNA said.

The Peloponnese Railway is part of what was the Piraeus, Athens and Peloponnese Railways, or SPAP, a railway company founded in 1882 and nationalized in 1954 although reports said it would be almost impossible to resume full service because there are section gaps on the route.