Izmir – Afyonkarahisar railway line

Izmir – Afyonkarahisar
Izmir-Basmane train station Starting point of the route
Route length:	421.7 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend 0 Izmir basmans İzmir – Eğirdir Railway Ottoman Railway Company (ORC) 0.7 Hilal Siding port 2.7 Halkapınar Route to Bornova 3.3 Çinarli 4.6 Salhane 6.0 Bayraklı 7.7 Turan 9.5 Naldöken 10.3 Alaybey 11.1 Karşıyaka 11.9 Nergiz 13.4 Yali 14.0 Şemikler 17.1 Çiğli 24.4 Ulukent 31.7 0 Menemen - 6.2 Yanikkoy - 12.1 Hatundere - 19.7 Triyaj Gari - 20.4 Biçerova - 25.6 Aliağa 38.4 Emiralem 40.8 Regulator 52.7 Ormanfidanlık 55.8 Muradiye Ayvacık 63.1 Horozkoy 66.0 Manisa Manisa – Bandırma railway line 79.7 Çobanısa 87.9 Madenköprü 93.2 Turgutlu 97.8 Zincirlikuyu 105.0 Urganlı 113.7 Ahmetli 119.0 Yaraslı 123.5 Sart 128.2 Mersindere 131.6 Salihli 134.3 Gümüscayi 138.7 Kabazlı 142.9 Yeşilkavak 146.2 Köseali 153.1 Kavaklıdere 155.2 Yenikoy 160.3 Piyadeler 165.3 165 + 340 km 169.0 Alaşehir 178.0 Killik 180.0 180 + 000 187.3 Konaklar 189.3 Km 189 + 320 198.1 Turkmentepe 199.5 199 + 510 km 205.2 Km 205 + 251 207.5 Güneyköy 217.9 Eşme 235.0 Ahmetler 252.2 İnay 271.8 Ovakoy 286.8 Usak 292.1 Uşak Şeker Fabrikası 303.1 Kapaklar 312.4 Nohutova 317.0 Kızılcasöğut 321.7 Oksüzkoy 327.2 Banaz 334.7 Boğazhamamı 345.2 Oturak 357.8 Dumlupinar 363.3 Kızılcaköy 372.1 Yıldırımkemal 389.4 Ayvalı 392.0 Baskimse 395.8 Balmahmut 402.2 Km 402 + 223 406.6 Gecekhaman by Afyonkarahisar since 1935 410.0 410 + 000 km 419.9 Afyon Şehir Anatolian Railway from Istanbul-Haydarpaşa 421.7 Afyon Ali Çetinkaya Anatolian Railway to Konya

The Izmir – Afyonkarahisar railway in Turkey connects Izmir with the Anatolian hinterland and connects to the Anatolian Railway in Afyonkarahisar .

history

The construction of the railway line was initially started by The Smyrna Cassaba Railway (SCR) as their main line in 1863, later due to the economic difficulties of the company partly by the Ottoman Empire and partly jointly by the company and the Ottoman Empire. It was put into operation in the following sections:

section	km	opening	by
Izmir Basmane - Manisa	66 km	October 10, 1865	SCR
Mansia - Turgutlu	27 km	January 10, 1866	SCR
Turgutlu - Alaşehir	76 km	March 1, 1875	Ottoman Empire
Alaşehir– Usak	118 km	December 20, 1887	Ottoman Empire / SCR
Uşak– Afyonkarahisar	133 km	1890	Ottoman Empire / SCR

In 1893, the Société Ottomane du Chemin de fer de Smyrne-Cassaba et Prolongements (SCP) took over the infrastructure and operation of the line. On May 6, 1899, the SCP concluded an agreement with the CFOA that included transitional operations between the two railways in Afyonkarahisar, continuous tariffing and mutual representation in the bodies of the two companies.

When the Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Devlet Demiryolları (TCDD) took over the SCP as part of the nationalization policy of the Turkish Republic on June 1, 1934, the Izmir – Afyonkarahisar line also became part of the Turkish State Railways .

business

The 252-kilometer route has steep gradients due to the mountainous terrain. It crosses the watershed between the Aegean and the Black Sea at 1263 meters above sea level . The track had only a relatively light superstructure . An axle load of 13.5 tons was not allowed to be exceeded in 1934.

The main goods in transit were agricultural products and raw materials that were exported through the port of Izmir. In the area of ​​the city of Izmir and its surrounding area, suburban traffic was offered, but outside of this area a maximum of one or two pairs of trains ran per day.

Today, the Konya Mavi operates on the route as a modern night express train .

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
• AE Durrant: The Steam Locomotives of Eastern Europe. David & Charles, Newton Abbot 1972, ISBN 0-7153-4077-8
• Neil Robinson: World Rail Atlas and historical summary. Volume 8: The Middle East and Caucasus. 2006.
• Viktor von Röll (Ed.): Turkish Railways . In: Enzyklopädie des Eisenbahnwesens Vol. 9. 2nd ed. 1912–1923, p. 373 ff.

Web links

• Konya Mavi timetable .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Information from Robinson, pp. 50–55.