List of railway lines in Turkey
Routes and their openings in Turkey
route | Length km |
Opened |
society | Route item | annotation |
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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 )