List of railway lines in Turkey

Railway line in Turkey

This is a list of railway lines made within the borders of present-day Turkey since 1860.[1][2][3]

Railway lines

Line Linear (km) Opening Date Company Note
Ottoman Empire period
İzmir - Sütlaç 357 1860 Ottoman Railway Company İzmir–Eğirdir railway
İzmir Basmane – Manisa – Turgutlu 93 1865 French company
İstanbul Sirkeci - Hadımköy 51 1872 Chemins de fer Orientaux
İstanbul Haydarpaşa – Pendik 26 1872 Ottoman Railway Company
Hadımköy – Sınır 229 1873 Chemins de fer Orientaux
Karaağaç – Sınır 7 1873 Chemins de fer Orientaux
Pendik – İzmit 67 1873 Ottoman Railway Company
Turgutlu – Alaşehir 76 1875 French company
Mersin – Yenice 43 1882 British company
Torbalı – Tire 48 1883 British company
Yenice – Adana 24 1886 British company
Alaşehir – Uşak 118 1887 British company
Çatal – Ödemiş 26 1888 British company
Goncalı – Denizli 9 1889 British company
Sütlaç – Çivril 30 1889 British company
Dinar – Eğirdir 94 1889 sonrası British company
Alaşehir – Afyon 135 1890 French company
Manisa – Kırkağaç 81 1890 French company
Ortaklar – Söke 22 1890 British company
İzmit – Büyükderbent 18 1890 Anatolian Railway Company
Büyükderbent – Vezirhan 105 1891 Anatolian Railway Company
Vezirhan – Ankara 362 1892 Anatolian Railway Company
Mudanya – Bursa 42 1893
Tiflis – Kars 124 Russian company Parts left over on Turkish soil
Eskişehir – Kütahya 77 1894 Anatolian Railway Company
Alayunt – Akşehir 192 1895 Anatolian Railway Company
Akşehir – Konya 174 1896 Anatolian Railway Company
Arifiye – Adapazarı 8,5 1899 Anatolian Railway Company
Konya – Bulgurlu 199 1904 Baghdad Railway
Bulgurlu – Ulukışla 39 1911 Baghdad Railway
Sütlaç – Eğirdir 114 1912 British company
Ulukışla – Yenice 108 1912 Baghdad Railway
Adana – Toprakkale – Mamure 97 1912 Baghdad Railway
(Aleppo) – Al-Rai – Karkamış, önceki: Jarabulus 188 1912 Baghdad Railway
Fevzipaşa – Meydan Ekbez – (Aleppo) 35 1912 Baghdad Railway
Toprakkale – İskenderun 59 1912 Baghdad Railway
Kırkağaç – Bandırma 195 1912 French company
Mandıra – Kırklareli 46 1912 Chemins de fer Orientaux
Toprakkale – İskenderun 60 1913 Baghdad Railway
Jarabulus – Akçakale, önceki: Tel Abyad 101 1914 Baghdad Railway
Akçakale – Sayalı, önceki: Tuem 62 1915 Baghdad Railway
Sayalı – Ceylanpınar, önceki: Resulayn 41 1915 Baghdad Railway
Kars – Erzurum Before 1917 Russian military ground Narrow gauge railway
Resulayn – Şenyurt, önceki: Derbesiye 61 1917 Baghdad Railway
Mamure – Meydan Ekbez 54 1917 Baghdad Railway Amanos Mountains
Hudut – Çobanköy – Nusaybin 382 1917 Baghdad Railway
Derbesiye – Mardin 24 1917 Baghdad Railway
Karapınar – Durak 37 1918 Baghdad Railway Taurus Mountains
Alaşehir – Afyon Before 1918 French company
Soma – Bandırma 185 Before 1918 French company
Period of the Republic of Turkey
Ankara – Yerköy 203 1925 TCDD First line built by TCDD
Samsun – Kavak 48 1926 TCDD
Yerköy – Kayseri 176 1927 TCDD
Kavak – Kayabaşı 98 1927 TCDD
Kayabaşı – Zile 69 1928 TCDD
Kütahya – Emirler 64 1929 TCDD
Fevzipaşa – Gölbaşı 138 1929 TCDD
Kayseri – İhsanlı 111 1930 TCDD
Emirler – Balıköy 36 1930 TCDD
Zile – Kunduz 70 1930 TCDD
İhsanlı – Sivas 112 1930 TCDD
Gölbaşı – Doğanşehir 56 1930 TCDD
Doğanşehir – Malatya 57 1931 TCDD
Malatya – Fırat 33 1932 TCDD
Balıköy – Balıkesir 153 1932 TCDD
Kunduz – Kalın 93 1932 TCDD
Kardeşgediği – Bor 45 1932 TCDD
Bor – Boğazköprü 126 1933 TCDD
Fırat – Yolçatı – Elâzığ 86 1934 TCDD
Çandır – Atkaracalar 86 1934 TCDD
Yolçatı – Maden 76 1935 TCDD
Narlı – Gaziantep 84 1935 TCDD
Atkaracalar – Ortaköy 56 1935 TCDD
Maden – Diyarbakır 83 1935 TCDD
Sivas – Eskiköy 63 1935 TCDD
Kayseri – Ulukışla 1935 TCDD
Adana – Şehir 3 1936 TCDD
Ortaköy – Bolkuş 60 1936 TCDD
Malatya – Yazıhan 33 1936 TCDD
Bolkuş – Hisarönü 86 1936 TCDD
Eskiköy – Çetinkaya 48 1936 TCDD
Yazıhan – Hekimhan 37 1936 TCDD
Hisarönü – Çatalağzı 15 1936 TCDD
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
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 15 1943 TCDD
Batman – Kurtalan 69 1944 TCDD
Tavşanlı – Tunçbilek 13 1944 TCDD
Malatya – Malatya Şehir 3 1944 TCDD
Zonguldak – Kozlu 4 1945 TCDD
Elâzığ – Palu 70 1946 TCDD
Palu – Genç 63 1947 TCDD
Köprüağzı – Maraş 28 1948 TCDD
Erzurum – Horasan 85 1949 TCDD
Uzunahmetler – Yekabat 33 1949 TCDD
Horasan – Sarıkamış 72 1951 TCDD
Yekabat – USSR border 229 1951 TCDD
Kozlu – Ereğli – Armutçuk 16 1953 TCDD
Genç – Muş 108 1955 TCDD
Yenidoğan – Temelli 1 1957 TCDD
Çardakbaşı – Beylikahır 3 1957 TCDD
Esenkent – Sincan 11 1957 - 1965 TCDD
Beylikahır – Yalınlı 5 1957 TCDD
Gaziantep – Karkamış 91 1960 TCDD
Sarıkamış – Kars 60 1961 TCDD
Etimesgut – Behiçbey 6 1961 TCDD
Kars – Kayaköprü (USSR border) 64 1962 TCDD
Kütahya – Seyitömer 27 1962 TCDD
Muş – Tatvan 94 1964 TCDD
İğciler – Polatlı 1 1965 TCDD
Gazi – Ankara 0,5 1965 TCDD
Esenkent – Malıköy 1 1966 TCDD Varyant
Karapınar – Yenidoğan 12 1968 TCDD Varyant
Sapanca – Arifiye 6 1970 TCDD Varyant
Pehlivanköy – Edirne – Kapıkule 68 1971 TCDD
Van – Kapıköy (Iran border) 117 1971 TCDD Tatvan – Van
Tahtaköprü 21 1972 TCDD Varyant
Halkalı – Ispartakule 9 1972 TCDD
Sazak – Biçer 14 1972 TCDD Varyant
Keban 47 1973 TCDD Varyant
Sazılar – Biçer 13 1973 TCDD Varyant
Ispartakule – Ömer 8 1973 TCDD Varyant
Yalınlı – Yunusemre 12 1974 TCDD Varyant
Yunusemre – Sazak 3 1974 TCDD Varyant
İlören – Sazılar Kurp Tashihi 1 1974 TCDD Varyant
Biçer – İlören 9 1974 TCDD Varyant
Kapıköy – Razi (Iran border) 1975 TCDD
Ömerli – Çatalca 16 1980 TCDD Varyant
Sinekli – Çerkezköy 10 1980 TCDD Varyant
Samsun – Çarşamba 39 1980 TCDD
Keban 10 1982 TCDD
Samsun – Gelemen 13 1983 TCDD
Bozüyük – İnönü 5 1985 TCDD
Kardeşgediği – Ulukışla 3 1985 TCDD
Yazıhan – Dilek 8 1986 TCDD
Eskimalatya – Bekir Hüseyin 25 1986 TCDD
Meydan – Bozdağ 5 1985 TCDD
Hanlı – Bostankaya 44 1994 TCDD
Menemen – Aliağa 26 1995 TCDD
Eskişehir – İnönü 31 1996 TCDD
Esenkent – Eskişehir 206 2009 TCDD High-speed railway line
Sincan– Esenkent 15 2010 TCDD High-speed railway line
Tekirdağ – Muratlı 31 2010 TCDD
Polatlı – Konya 212 2011 TCDD High-speed railway line
Eskişehir – Köseköy 188 2014 TCDD High-speed railway line.
Some parts that are still under construction (~30km in total), are by-passed through renewed conventional lines.
Osmaneli – Bursa Under construction TCDD
Kayaş – Sivas 394 Under construction TCDD High-speed railway line
Polatlı – Afyon Under construction TCDD High-speed railway line
Afyon – Menemen Under construction TCDD High-speed railway line

References

  1. ^ TCDD Demiryolu Güzergahları
  2. ^ Erika Preissig, Günther Klebes: Demiryollarıbau und Demiryollarıprojekte im Orient und die damit verfolgten wirtschaftlichen und politischen Ziele. in: Jahrbuch für Demiryollarıgeschichte.
  3. ^ mwi: Schneller von Ankara nach Istanbul.