İzmir – Eğirdir Railway

İzmir – Eğirdir
İzmir-Alsancak Railway Station
Route length:	470.3 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend -1.2 Alsancak Liman harbor Alsancak Liman harbor 0 İzmir-Alsancak Cross with SCR 1.1 Hilal 2.0 Kemer 4.0 Ballikuyu 6.1 0 Sirinyer - 1.3 Efeler - 2.4 Buca 7.2 Koşu Duragı 8.6 İnkılap 9.7 Km 9 + 980 0 13.8 Gaziemir 1.4 - Seydikoy 15.4 Sarnıç 17.8 Adnan Menderes 21.3 Cumaovasi 28.1 Develikoy 31.5 Tekekoy 36.6 Pancar 43.1 Kuşkuburun 45.7 Km 45 + 750 48.6 0 Torbalı Torbalı – Ödemiş Şehir railway line 50.6 Konak 51.5 Tepekoy 59.1 Sağlık 63.0 Celatkahve 66.3 Kozpınar 77.1 Selçuk Çamlık ( Çamlık Railway Museum ) 88.3 Çamlık 0 99.5 Ortaklar 6.4 - Morality Tekin 15.8 - Bazlıköy 22.5 - Soke 102.8 Neşetiye 108.0 Germencık 110.1 Alangülü 114.0 Erbeyli 115.3 Sinirteke 119.6 İncirliova 122.5 Kazakkahve 124.7 Osmanbük 130.0 Aydın 136.5 İmamköy 140.6 Umurlu 145.7 Beykoy 149.1 Köşk 152.8 Kirkkahve 154.5 Çiftekahve 159.4 Sultanhisar 161.7 Devran 164.5 Atça 166.6 Çaktalı 169.5 Isabeyli 175.2 Nazili 180.5 Güzelkoy 183.6 Beseylu 186.9 Kuyucak 193.8 Pamulkören 198.7 Horsunlu 206.9 Gençeli 210.0 Meryemoğlu 212.6 Buharkent 219.6 Kızıldere 225.3 Karataş 230.8 Saraykoy 235.0 Durak 240.7 Üzerlik 0 251.2 Goncalı 9.4 - Denizli 255.7 Korucuk 260.6 Böceli 274.7 Kocabaş 279.4 Aşağidiağdere 283.3 Kaklık 293.4 Km 293 + 445 296.5 Başçesme 302.6 Bozkurt 308.5 Çardak 323.6 Sarikavak 328.2 Dazkiri 332.7 Km 332 + 686 339.4 Akyarma 343.5 Evciler 352.1 Baraklı 356.5 0 Sütlaç - 8.1 Irgılı - 11.3 Beykoy - 14.6 Sundurlu - 20.1 Seraserlı - 23.4 Incekoy - 26.7 Ömerköy - 30.2 Çivril 361.2 Yesilhüyük 365.3 Kabaklı 375.0 dinar by Afyonkarahisar (since 1935) 390.7 Karakuyu 394.0 394 + 000 398.1 Çapalı 401.4 İncesu 412.0 Keçiborlu Keçiborlu Kükürt Fabrikası (siding) 0 423.6 Gümüşgün 5.1 - Gölbası 12.0 - Gökçebağ 13.9 - Çerciri 17.7 - Askeriye Burdur Şeker Fabrikası (siding) 23.9 - Burdur 430.6 Kirikçayır 436.9 Senirce 0 438.9 Bozanönü - 2.5 Büyükseki - 13.4 İsparta 445.4 Km 445 + 427 447.4 Kuleönü 455.0 Harmenören 458.0 Büyükgökçali 463.4 Makas 468.6 468 + 600 470.3 Egirdir Swell:

The İzmir – Eğirdir railway is part of the Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Devlet Demiryolları (TCDD) network and connects the eponymous cities of İzmir and Eğirdir in Turkey .

history

The line was built between 1858 and 1912 in sections and with a few branches by the Ottoman Railway Company (ORC), a company equipped with British capital. It opened up the fertile hinterland of what was then Smyrna (today: İzmir) and improved its connection to the central market and export port.

On October 22, 1912, one of the most momentous rail accidents in the world to date occurred near Selçuk : A troop transport carrying 800 people crashed, more than 200 died, and 250 others were injured.

→ Main article : Ephesus railway accident

The ORC was nationalized on June 1, 1935, as Turkey endeavored to unite the railway lines that were in different hands on its territory in a state railway . With the Karakuyu – Afyonkarahisar railway line , which opened almost simultaneously on November 26, 1935 , the long-desired connection to the Baghdad Railway and the Anatolian Railway was created.

Route sections and commissioning

• İzmir-Alsancak - Sirinyer - Gaziemir - Seydiköy Railway Station, October 30, 1858
  • Sirinyer - Buca , 1860-2008
• Gaziemir - Torbalı , December 24, 1860
• Torbalı - Celatkahve , September 9, 1861
• Celatkahve - Selçuk , September 15, 1862
• Selçuk - Ortaklar - Aydin , July 1st, 1866 (end of the original plan)
  • Ortaklar - Söke , December 1, 1890
• Aydin - Kuyuçak, 1881
• Kuyuçak - Sarayköy , July 1, 1882
• Sarayköy - Goncalı - Sütlaç - Gümüşgün - Dinar , October 13, 1889
  • Goncalı - Denizli , October 13, 1889
  • Sütlaç - Çivril , December 29, 1889
• Dinar - Egirdir , November 1, 1912
  • Gümüşgün - Burdur , October 1, 1936
  • Bozanönü - Isparta , March 25, 1936

The upgrading of the line was mostly simple. There are no significant engineering structures. Only the crossing of the mountains near Aydin and the ascent to the Anatolian plateau near Sarayköy required longer inclines. The superstructure was simple. In 1935, axle loads of a maximum of only 13.5 tons were permitted.

In July 1990 the branch line from Sütlaç to Çivril was closed .

traffic

Today the suburban traffic around İzmir has the greatest importance. The remainder of the route is used several times a day to Goncalı by trains that continue on a branch to Denizli .

literature

• Benno Bickel, Karl-Wilhelm Koch, Florian Schmidt: Steam under the half moon. The last few years of steam operation in Turkey. Verlag Röhr, Krefeld 1987, ISBN 3-88490-183-4
• Neil Robinson: World Rail Atlas and historical summary. Volume 8: The Middle East and Caucasus. 2006.

Web links

Turkish railways. In: Viktor von Röll (ed.): Encyclopedia of the Railway System . 2nd Edition. Volume 9: Seaport tariffs - transition curve . Urban & Schwarzenberg, Berlin / Vienna 1921, p.  373 ff.

• Trains of Turkey: ORC Ottoman Railway Company (English)
• Timetable .

Remarks

1. ↑ According to Robinson: "Dınar".

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Izmir – Denizli line. Route Çamlık. In: trainsofturkey.com. Accessed December 22, 2015 . 
2. ↑ Selçuk – Ortaklar line. Route Çamlık. In: trainsofturkey.com. Accessed December 22, 2015 . 
3. ^ Ortaklar – Söke line. Routing Ortaklar. In: trainsofturkey.com. Accessed December 23, 2015 . 
4. ^ Robinson, panels 7-10
5. ↑ Robinson, pp. 50-55.
6. ^ Şirinyer– Buca line. Route data. In: trainsofturkey.com. Accessed December 23, 2015 . 
7. ↑ Robinson, p. 54.