List of railway lines in Turkey
Routes and their openings in Turkey
| route | Length km |
Opened |
society | Route item | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Izmir - Trianda (near Torbalı ) | 43 | 1860 | Ottoman Railway Company | İzmir – Eğirdir Railway | |
| Basmane ( Izmir ) - Manisa | 66 | 1865 | Chemin de fer de Smyrne-Cassaba et Prolongements | Izmir – Afyonkarahisar railway line | |
| Manisa - Turgutlu | 28 | 1866 | Chemin de fer de Smyrne-Cassaba et Prolongements | Izmir – Afyonkarahisar railway line | |
| Basmane ( Izmir ) - Bornova | 5 | 1866 | Chemin de fer de Smyrne-Cassaba et Prolongements | ||
| Trianda (near Torbalı ) - Aydın | 43 | 1866 | Ottoman Railway Company | İzmir – Eğirdir Railway | |
| İstanbul Sirkeci - Hadımköy | 51 | 1872 | Compagnie des Chemins de fer Orientaux | Railway İstanbul Sirkeci – Swilengrad | |
| İstanbul Haydarpaşa - Pendik | 26th | 1872 | Ottoman State Railways | ||
| Hadımköy - Hudut | 229 | 1873 | Compagnie des Chemins de fer Orientaux | Railway İstanbul Sirkeci – Swilengrad | |
| Karaağaç - Hudut | 7th | 1873 | Compagnie des Chemins de fer Orientaux | Railway İstanbul Sirkeci – Swilengrad | |
| Pendik - İzmit | 67 | 1873 | Ottoman State Railways | ||
| Turgutlu-Alaşehir | 76 | 1875 | Chemin de fer de Smyrne-Cassaba et Prolongements | Izmir – Afyonkarahisar railway line | |
| Mersin - Yenice | 43 | 1882 | |||
| Aydın - Sarayköy | 101 | 1882 | Ottoman Railway Company | İzmir – Eğirdir Railway | |
| Torbalı - Tire | 48 | 1883 | Ottoman Railway Company | Torbalı – Ödemiş Şehir railway line | |
| Yenice - Adana | 24 | 1886 | |||
| Alaşehir - Usak | 118 | 1887 | Chemin de fer de Smyrne-Cassaba et Prolongements | Izmir – Afyonkarahisar railway line | |
| Saraykoy - dinar | 145 | 1889 | Ottoman Railway Company | İzmir – Eğirdir Railway | |
| Çatal - Oedemis (Şehir) | 26th | 1888 | Ottoman Railway Company | Torbalı – Ödemiş Şehir railway line | |
| Goncalı - Denizli | 9 | 1889 | Ottoman Railway Company | ||
| Sütlaç - Çivril | 30th | 1889 | Ottoman Railway Company | ||
| Manisa-Kırkağaç | 81 | 1890 | Chemin de fer de Smyrne-Cassaba et Prolongements | Manisa – Bandırma railway line | |
| Ortaklar-Soke | 22nd | 1890 | Ottoman Railway Company | ||
| İzmit - Büyükderbent | 18th | 1890 | Anatolian Railway | ||
| Büyükderbent - Vezirhan | 105 | 1891 | Anatolian Railway | ||
| Vezirhan - Ankara | 362 | 1892 | Anatolian Railway | ||
| Mudanya - Bursa | 42 | 1893 | |||
| Tbilisi - Kars | 124 *) | Russian society | Russian broad gauge; *) on later Turkish territory | ||
| Eskişehir - Kütahya | 77 | 1894 | Anatolian Railway | ||
| Alayunt - Akşehir | 192 | 1895 | Anatolian Railway | ||
| Akşehir - Konya | 174 | 1896 | Anatolian Railway | ||
| Alaşehir - Afyon | 135 | 1897 | Chemin de fer de Smyrne-Cassaba et Prolongements | Izmir – Afyonkarahisar railway line | |
| Arifiye - Adapazarı | 8.5 | 1899 | Anatolian Railway | The Anatolian Railway reaches its greatest extent (1032.2 km) | |
| Konya - Bulgurlu | 199 | 1904 | Baghdad Railway | ||
| Bulgurlu– Ulukışla | 39 | 1911 | Baghdad Railway | ||
| Dinar - Egirdir | 95 | 1912 | Ottoman Railway Company | İzmir – Eğirdir Railway | |
| Ulukışla - Yenice | 108 | 1912 | Baghdad Railway | ||
| Adana - Toprakkale - Mamure | 97 | 1912 | Baghdad Railway | ||
| ( Aleppo ) - Çobanbey - Karkamış , formerly: Jerablus | 188 | 1912 | Baghdad Railway | ||
| Fevzipaşa - Meydan Ekbez (- Aleppo ) | 35 | 1912 | Baghdad Railway | ||
| Toprakkale - İskenderun | 59 | 1912 | Baghdad Railway | ||
| Kırkağaç– Bandırma | 195 | 1912 | Chemin de fer de Smyrne-Cassaba et Prolongements | Manisa – Bandırma railway line | |
| Mandıra-Kırklareli | 46 | 1912 | Compagnie des Chemins de fer Orientaux | ||
| Toprakkale - İskenderun | 60 | 1913 | Baghdad Railway | ||
| Jerablus– Akçakale , formerly: Tel Ebiad | 101 | 1914 | Baghdad Railway | ||
| Akçakale - Sayalı , formerly: Tuem | 62 | 1915 | Baghdad Railway | ||
| Sayalı - Ceylanpınar , formerly: Ras al Ayin | 41 | 1915 | Baghdad Railway | ||
| Kars - Erzurum - and further west | before 1917 | Russian military railroad | Narrow gauge railway | ||
| Rasulain - Şenyurt , formerly: derbizia | 61 | 1917 | Baghdad Railway | ||
| Mamure - Meydan Ekbez | 54 | 1917 | Baghdad Railway | Crossing over the Amanos Mountains | |
| Hudut - Çobanköy - Nusaybin | 382 | 1917 | Baghdad Railway | ||
| Derbesiye - Mardin | 24 | 1917 | Baghdad Railway | ||
| Karapınar– Dorak | 37 | 1918 | Baghdad Railway | Transition over the Taurus Mountains | |
| Ankara - Yerköy | 203 | 1925 | TCDD | First new building of the TCDD | |
| Samsun - Kavak | 48 | 1926 | TCDD | Sivas – Samsun railway line | |
| Yerköy - Kayseri | 176 | 1927 | TCDD | ||
| Kavak - Kayabaşı | 98 | 1927 | TCDD | Sivas – Samsun railway line | |
| Kayabaşı - Zile | 69 | 1928 | TCDD | Sivas – Samsun railway line | |
| Kütahya - Emirler | 64 | 1929 | TCDD | ||
| Fevzipaşa - Gölbaşı | 138 | 1929 | TCDD | Turkish bypassing the Syrian part of the Baghdad Railway | |
| Kayseri - İhsanlı | 111 | 1930 | TCDD | ||
| Emirler - Balıköy | 36 | 1930 | TCDD | ||
| Zile - Kunduz | 70 | 1930 | TCDD | Sivas – Samsun railway line | |
| İhsanlı - Sivas | 112 | 1930 | TCDD | ||
| Gölbaşı - Dogansehir | 56 | 1930 | TCDD | ||
| Dogansehir - Malatya | 57 | 1931 | TCDD | ||
| Malatya - Fırat | 33 | 1932 | TCDD | ||
| Balıköy - Balıkesir | 153 | 1932 | TCDD | ||
| Kunduz - Kalın | 93 | 1932 | TCDD | Sivas – Samsun railway line | |
| Kardeşgediği - Bor | 45 | 1932 | TCDD | ||
| Bor - Boğazköprü | 126 | 1933 | TCDD | ||
| Fırat - Yolçatı - Elazığ | 86 | 1934 | TCDD | ||
| Çandır - Atkaracalar | 86 | 1934 | TCDD | Railway Irmak – Karabük – Zonguldak | |
| Yolçatı - maggots | 76 | 1935 | TCDD | ||
| Narlı - Gaziantep | 84 | 1935 | TCDD | Turkish bypassing the Syrian part of the Baghdad Railway | |
| Atkaracalar - Ortakoy | 56 | 1935 | TCDD | Railway Irmak – Karabük – Zonguldak | |
| Maggots - Diyarbakır | 83 | 1935 | TCDD | ||
| Sivas - Eskikoy | 63 | 1935 | TCDD | ||
| Kayseri - Ulukışla | 1935 | TCDD | |||
| Adana - Sheir | 3 | 1936 | TCDD | ||
| Ortaköy - Bolkuş | 60 | 1936 | TCDD | Railway Irmak – Karabük – Zonguldak | |
| Malatya - Yazıhan | 33 | 1936 | TCDD | ||
| Bolkuş - Hisarönü | 86 | 1936 | TCDD | Railway Irmak – Karabük – Zonguldak | |
| Eskiköy - Çetinkaya | 48 | 1936 | TCDD | ||
| Yazıhan - Hekimhan | 37 | 1936 | TCDD | ||
| Hisarönü - Çatalağzı | 15th | 1936 | TCDD | Railway Irmak – Karabük – Zonguldak | |
| Bozanönü - Isparta | 13 | 1936 | TCDD | ||
| Gümüşgün - Burdur | 24 | 1936 | TCDD | ||
| Afyon - Karakuyu | 112 | 1936 | TCDD | ||
| Çetinkaya - Divriği | 65 | 1937 | TCDD | ||
| Hekimhan - Çetinkaya | 70 | 1937 | TCDD | ||
| Çatalağzı - Zonguldak | 10 | 1937 | TCDD | Railway Irmak – Karabük – Zonguldak | |
| Divriği - Erzincan | 156 | 1938 | TCDD | ||
| Erzincan-Erzurum | 215 | 1939 | TCDD | ||
| Diyarbakır - Bismil | 47 | 1940 | TCDD | ||
| Hadımköy - Kurukavak | 11 | 1941 | TCDD | ||
| Bismil - Sinan | 28 | 1942 | TCDD | ||
| Sinan - Batman | 15th | 1943 | TCDD | ||
| Batman - Kurtalan | 69 | 1944 | TCDD | ||
| Tavşanlı - Tunçbilek | 13 | 1944 | TCDD | ||
| Malatya - Malatya Şehir | 3 | 1944 | TCDD | ||
| Zonguldak - Kozlu | 4th | 1945 | TCDD | ||
| Elazığ - Palu | 70 | 1946 | TCDD | ||
| Palu - Genç | 63 | 1947 | TCDD | ||
| Köprüağzı - K. Maraş | 28 | 1948 | TCDD | ||
| Erzurum - Horasan | 85 | 1949 | TCDD | ||
| Uzunahmetler - Yekabat | 33 | 1949 | TCDD | ||
| Horasan - Sarıkamış | 72 | 1951 | TCDD | ||
| Yekabat - Russian border | 229 | 1951 | TCDD | ||
| Kozlu - Ereğli - Armutçuk | 16 | 1953 | TCDD | ||
| Genç - Mus | 108 | 1955 | TCDD | ||
| Yenidoğan - Temelli | 1 | 1957 | TCDD | changed route | |
| Çardakbaşı - Beylikahır | 3 | 1957 | TCDD | changed route | |
| Esenkent - Sincan | 11 | 1957-1965 | TCDD | Realized in 4 construction stages; changed route | |
| Beylikahır - Yalınlı | 5 | 1957 | TCDD | changed route | |
| Gaziantep - Karkamış | 91 | 1960 | TCDD | Turkish bypassing the Syrian part of the Baghdad Railway | |
| Sarıkamış - Kars | 60 | 1961 | TCDD | ||
| Etimesgut - Behiçbey | 6th | 1961 | TCDD | changed route | |
| Kars - Russian border ( Köprü ) | 64 | 1962 | TCDD | ||
| Kütahya - Seyitömer | 27 | 1962 | TCDD | ||
| Muş - Tatvan | 94 | 1964 | TCDD | ||
| İğciler - Polatlı | 1 | 1965 | TCDD | changed route | |
| Gazi - Ankara | 0.5 | 1965 | TCDD | changed route | |
| Esenkent –Malıköy | 1 | 1966 | TCDD | changed route | |
| Karapınar-Yenidoğan | 12 | 1968 | TCDD | changed route | |
| Sapanca-Arifiye | 6th | 1970 | TCDD | changed route | |
| Pehlivanköy - Edirne - Kapıkule - Svilengrad | 68 | 1971 | TCDD | Kapitan Andreewo-Kapıkule border crossing | |
| Van - Kapıköy - ( Iranian border) | 117 | 1971 | TCDD | Van – Tabriz railway line | Between Tatvan and Van there is a 96 km long ferry route across Lake Van |
| Tahtaköprü | 21st | 1972 | TCDD | changed route | |
| Halkalı - Ispartakule | 9 | 1972 | TCDD | ||
| Sazak - Biçer | 14th | 1972 | TCDD | changed route | |
| Keban | 47 | 1973 | TCDD | changed route | |
| Sazılar - Biçer | 13 | 1973 | TCDD | changed route | |
| Ispartakule –Emer | 8th | 1973 | TCDD | changed route | |
| Yalınlı –Yunusemre | 12 | 1974 | TCDD | changed route | |
| Yunusemre –Sazak | 3 | 1974 | TCDD | changed route | |
| İlören - Sazılar Kurp Tashihi | 1 | 1974 | TCDD | changed route | |
| Biçer –İlören | 9 | 1974 | TCDD | changed route | |
| Kapıköy - Razi (Iran) | 1975 | TCDD | Border crossing to Iran | ||
| Ömerli - Çatalca | 16 | 1980 | TCDD | changed route | |
| Sinekli - Çerkezköy | 10 | 1980 | TCDD | changed route | |
| Samsun - Çarşamba | 39 | 1980 | TCDD | ||
| Keban | 10 | 1982 | TCDD | Second changed route | |
| Samsun - Gelemen | 13 | 1983 | TCDD | ||
| Bozüyük - İnönü | 5 | 1985 | TCDD | Changed route, 1st construction stage | |
| Kardeşgediği - Ulukışla | 3 | 1985 | TCDD | changed route | |
| Yazıhan - Dilek | 8th | 1986 | TCDD | changed route | |
| Eskimalatya - Bekir Hüseyin | 25th | 1986 | TCDD | changed route | |
| Meydan Bozdağ Tunnel | 5 | 1985 | TCDD | changed route, 1st construction phase | |
| Hanlı - Bostankaya | 44 | 1994 | TCDD | ||
| Menemen - Aliağa | 26th | 1995 | TCDD | ||
| Eskişehir - İnönü | 31 | 1996 | TCDD | ||
| Esenkent - Gebze | 206 | 2009/2014 | TCDD | Ankara – İstanbul high-speed line | |
| Ankara - Konya | 306 | 2010 | TCDD | Ankara – Konya high-speed line | |
| Tekirdağ - Muratlı | 31 | 2010 | TCDD | ||
| Yenikapı - Üsküdar | 14th | 2013 | TCDD | Marmaray tunnel under the Bosphorus | |
| Ankara - Izmir | under construction | TCDD | Ankara – Izmir high-speed line | ||
| Ankara - Sivas | under construction | TCDD | Ankara – Sivas high-speed line | ||
| Yerköy - Kayseri | under construction | TCDD | Yerköy – Kayseri high-speed line | ||
| Sivas - Erzincan | under construction | TCDD | High-speed route | ||
| Bursa - Bilecik | under construction | TCDD | High-speed route | ||
| Halkah - Kapikule | under construction | TCDD | High-speed route | ||
| Karaman - Ulukisla - Yenice | under construction | TCDD | High-speed route | ||
| Aliağa - Candarli | under construction | TCDD | High-speed route | ||
| Tepekoy - Selçuk | under construction | TCDD | High-speed route |
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
- Erika Preissig, Günther Klebes: Railway construction and railway projects in the Orient and the economic and political goals pursued with them. In: Yearbook for Railway History. Hövelhof 21.1989, pp. 43-102, ISSN 0340-4250
- mwi: Faster from Ankara to Istanbul . In: Eisenbahn-Revue. Lucerne 2009.6, p. 298, ISSN 1421-2811
Web links
- TCDD website ( Memento from April 9, 2006 in the Internet Archive )