Istanbul Haydarpaşa Railway Station

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Istanbul Haydarpaşa
Reception hall of the train station
Reception hall of the train station
Data
Design Terminus
opening August 19, 1908
Architectural data
Architectural style Wilhelmine style
architect Otto Ritter von Kühlmann and Hellmuth Cuno
location
City / municipality Kadıköy
Place / district Rasimpaşa
province Istanbul
Country Turkey
Coordinates 40 ° 59 '46 "  N , 29 ° 1' 7"  E Coordinates: 40 ° 59 '46 "  N , 29 ° 1' 7"  E
Railway lines

Anatolian Railway Haydarpaşa – Ankara
Banliyö Trenleri

List of train stations in Turkey
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Reception building before the major fire
window
platform

The Haydarpaşa railway station or Haydarpascha station , also briefly Haydarpaşa called, is the main station of Istanbul for Asian routes

Geographical location

The former terminal station is located on the Asian side of the Bosphorus , within the Haydarpaşa port area. To the north of the passenger station is the combined freight and port station . Haydarpaşa Station was a stopover on the Eminönü - Kadıköy and Karaköy -Kadıköy Bosphorus ferries.

history

The station was built by the Philipp Holzmann company . The plans for the reception building come from the German architects Otto Ritter von Kühlmann and Hellmuth Cuno . The station was the starting point of the Anatolian Railway , from which the Baghdad Railway later branched off. Construction began on May 30, 1906. Otto Linnemann from Frankfurt am Main designed all the windows in the station concourse . The inauguration took place on August 19, 1908.

The Turkish railway lines to Anatolia , Iran , Iraq and Syria began at Haydarpaşa station . Since 1930 it was the starting point of the Taurus Express . It also served as the end point of the eastern line of the Istanbul S-Bahn .

Scaffolded station building during the repair work

On November 28, 2010, during repair work, a fire broke out that destroyed the roof and the fourth floor of the station building. The roof was then only poorly repaired. At the beginning of February 2012, long-distance traffic to Haydarpaşa station was suspended. In connection with the Marmaray project, a tunnel under the Bosphorus , the station also lost its function from 2014 as the end point of the S-Bahn to the eastern suburbs of Istanbul on the Anatolian Railway .

Planning

The future of the reception building was uncertain for a long time, the track systems were used to park damaged vehicles. The initial plan was that a museum would be built in one part, a hotel and a shopping center in another.

This planning was abandoned in spring 2018. The station should be prepared for tourist traffic by autumn 2019. Both the high-speed trains and other long-distance trains and also the S-Bahn are to approach the station. However, this has not yet been implemented.

Worth knowing

Outside the station which is steam locomotive 20 of the Ottoman Railway Company as a memorial locomotive.

Istanbul's main train station for the European side of rail traffic is Sirkeci station .

Web links

Commons : Istanbul Haydarpaşa Train Station  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Report in the taz .
  2. ↑ a b NN: Haydarpasa to be Reopened :. In: HaRakevet 121 (June 2018), p. 26 (based on a report from Fahrplancenter News 58, p. 18).