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Ankara Central Station

ANKARA
TCDD railway terminal
Ankara Gar 2017.jpg
Ankara railway station
Coordinates 39°56′11″N 32°50′38″E / 39.9364°N 32.8438°E / 39.9364; 32.8438Coordinates: 39°56′11″N 32°50′38″E / 39.9364°N 32.8438°E / 39.9364; 32.8438
Owned by Turkish State Railways
Line(s) Yüksek Hızlı Tren
Fatih Express
Ankara Express
Anatolia Express
Boğaziçi Express
Karesi Express
İzmir Blue Train
Çukurova Blue Train
Eastern Express
Van Lake Express
Southern Express
Trans Asia Express
Ankara-Kırıkkale Regional
Ankara-Polatlı Regional
Sincan-Kayaş Commuter Line
Platforms 6
Tracks 8
Connections EGO Bus, ANKARAY
Construction
Structure type At-grade
Parking Yes
Disabled access Yes
Other information
Station code 2503
History
Opened 1892
Rebuilt 1937
Electrified 1972 (25 kV AC)

Ankara railway station (Turkish: Ankara Garı) is the main railway station in Ankara, Turkey. The station is located in Ulus across from the Gençlik Parkı public park and near the second Turkish Grand National Assembly building. Before 2009, the station was the busiest in Turkey in terms of passenger rail, seeing 181 trains daily. The station is the eastern terminus of the Istanbul-Ankara railway corridor as well as the current eastern terminus of the Yüksek Hızlı Tren high-speed rail service. Due to the rehabilitation of the railway in Ankara under the Başkentray project, commuter rail as well as eastbound trains have been temporarily suspended from servicing Ankara station.

The Art Deco station building was built in 1937 to accommodate the increase of railway traffic and has become a landmark of the city. In 2016 a new, larger station building dedicated to high-speed trains was opened called Ankara Train Station (Turkish: Ankara Tren Garı or ATG).


The original builder and war materials to the fronts in Palestine and Mesopotamia. Therefore, between 1914 and 1918 the Ankara station had no passenger service and very little freight service. The CFOA fell under British military control after the War, but the Turkish Nationalists captured Ankara and parts of the CFOA. During the Turkish Independence War, CFOA transported troops from Ankara, as the newly named capital of Turkey, to the front near Eskişehir.

After the Turkish independence war ended, the passenger train services from Istanbul to Ankara resumed. The CFOA, now under Turkish control, finally opened the line to Kayseri and Ankara was no longer the terminus. CFOA was then acquired by the Turkish State Railways (TCDD) on June 1, 1927 and Ankara station was placed under TCDD control. In 1927 the Anatolian Express was inaugurated as a premier overnight train from Istanbul to Ankara operated by the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits (CIWL). The current Art deco building was built in 1937 by German architects. As TCDD completed rail lines to other cities, new train services from Ankara such as the 9th of September Express (1939) to Izmir, the Eastern Express (1939) to Kars, and the Southern Express (1944) to Diyarbakır and Kurtalan made Ankara station one of the busiest stations in Turkey. In 1972, the station, along with the track between Sincan and Kayaş, were electrified with 25 kV AC catenary for the Ankara Suburban Railway. In 1993 the Istanbul-Ankara line was fully electrified. In the 1990s TCDD opened a steam museum next to the station. In 2009 a high-speed train service operated from Ankara to Eskişehir.


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