Van – Tabriz railway line
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 Pier of the train ferry to Van in Tatvan Îskele
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| Route length: | 337.7 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Power system : | 25 kV / 50 Hz (section: Sufijan – Tabriz) ~ |
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The Van – Tabriz railway connects the Turkish Railway ( TCDD ) with the Iranian railway .
description
The line is single-track and 377.7 km long and was built in the standard gauge used as standard in both countries . The entire length of the line was opened in 1971. Between Tabriz and Sufian , the connection uses the Tabriz – Jolfa railway, which has existed since 1916, and a 53 km branch of the Tabriz – Jolfa railway line that has existed since then between Sufian and Sharaf Chanech . Van is ferry traffic to the station Tatvan İskele , the end point of the railway line Elazig Tatvan , which opened the 1964th Border stations are Kapıköy (Turkey, route km 114) and Razi (Iran, route km 120).
traffic
If the political constellations on both sides of the border are consistent, the route is important in freight transport . Due to the economic sanctions against Iran, the volume of goods traffic on the route is currently low, but passenger traffic was limited to a few trains per week even in the best of times. Here the Trans Asya Ekspresi operated between Istanbul - Haydarpaşa and Tehran and the Tahran Şam Ekspresi between Tabriz and Damascus .
On January 15, 2018, a new ferry was put into operation on Lake Van for the Tatvan – Van trajectory . The Sultan Alparslan is a railway ferry , 136.5 m long and 24 m wide. 50 freight wagons with a maximum weight of 3875 tons can be transferred simultaneously on four parallel tracks, each 125 m long . The Sultan Alparslan is Turkey's largest ferry. In addition, 350 travelers can be taken along. The ferry was built in Van's dock . A second ferry was put into operation in the course of 2018. The old ferries only had a capacity of 500 tons and 8–12 cars.
On June 16, 2018, after a three-year interruption, passenger traffic between Van and Tabriz was resumed. The train runs once a week.
literature
- Islamic Republic of Iran Ministry of Roads and Urban Developement - Deputy for Construction & Developement of Railway, Airport and Ports: [ Map of the Iranian railway network ]. Status: August 2014.
- Neil Robinson: World Rail Atlas . Vol. 8: The Middle East and Caucasus . 2006.
Web links
Remarks
- ↑ Traffic has been suspended since August 2015 due to the security situation in Eastern Turkey (see: The Man in Seat 61: London to Tehran & Iran - Istanbul to Tehran by train ).
- ↑ The train was primarily used by Iranian pilgrims to visit Shiite shrines in Damascus. The train was stopped when the civil war in Syria began.
- ↑ Slightly different information in: HaRakevet 123 (December 2018), p. 24, according to a report in Fahrplancenter News 59, p. 16: Track length 130 m, 24–32 wagons, depending on the design, 4,000 tonnes load capacity.
Individual evidence
- ^ Ministry: Map .
- ↑ Robinson, Pl. 35f.
- ↑ See: Johannes Heger: The unofficial Homepage of the Iranian Railways ( Memento of the original from December 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Robinson, pp. 18, 20f.
- ↑ Cihat Göktepe: The 'Forgotten Alliance'? Anglo-Turkish Relations and CENTO, 1959-65 . In: Middle Eastern Studies 35/4 (10/1999), pp. 103-129 (118); Philip Ernest Schoenberg: The Evolution of Transport in Turkey (Eastern Thrace and Asia Minor) under Ottoman Rule, 1856-1918 . In: Middle Eastern Studies 13/3 (10/1977), pp. 359-372 (364).
- ↑ HaRakevet 123 (December 2018), p. 24, according to a report in Fahrplancenter News 59, p. 16.
- ^ RAI and TCDD : A new Ferry link put into Operation between Turkey and Iran . In: OSJD Bulletin 2018/1, p. 19.
- ^ NN: Ferry Traffic on Lake Van . In: HaRakevet 123 (December 2018), p. 24, after a report in Fahrplancenter News 59, p. 16.
- ^ NN: International Traffic to Iran . In: HaRakevet 123 (December 2018), p. 24, after a report in Fahrplancenter News 59, p. 16.
