Istanbul Haydarpaşa Railway Station
Istanbul Haydarpaşa | |
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Reception hall of the train station
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Data | |
Design | Terminus |
opening | August 19, 1908 |
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Architectural style | Wilhelmine style |
architect | Otto Ritter von Kühlmann and Hellmuth Cuno |
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City / municipality | Kadıköy |
Place / district | Rasimpaşa |
province | Istanbul |
Country | Turkey |
Coordinates | 40 ° 59 '46 " N , 29 ° 1' 7" E |
Railway lines | |
Anatolian Railway Haydarpaşa – Ankara |
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List of train stations in Turkey |
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 .
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
- Website of the Turkish State Railways TCDD (English) ( Memento of 9 April 2006 at the Internet Archive )
- Tour guide Ahmet Aybar: Numerous photos of the train station
- Jürgen Gottschlich: A symbol is being sold. In: the daily newspaper , February 21, 2012