Torbalı – Ödemiş Şehir railway line
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| Route length: | 62.9 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Torbalı – Ödemiş Şehir railway is part of the Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Devlet Demiryolları (TCDD) network and connects the eponymous cities of Torbalı and Ödemiş in Turkey .
history
The line was opened on September 1, 1893 to Tire , 1894 to Ödemiş Şehir 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 the connection between the growing areas and the central market and export port.
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 . This also brought the Torbalı – Ödemiş Şehir railway and its branch line to Tire into the possession of the TCDD.
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)