Ankara Station

ANKARA
TCDD railway terminal
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)	Eastern Express (Temporary bus service)   Lake Van Express (Temporary bus service)   Southern Express (Temporary bus service)   Başkentray (2017)
Platforms	6
Tracks	8
Connections	EGO Bus, ANKARAY
Construction
Structure type	At-grade
Parking	Yes
Disabled access	Yes
Architect	Şekip Akalın
Architectural style	Art Deco
Other information
Station code	2503
History
Opened	1892
Rebuilt	1937
Electrified	1972 (25 kV AC)
Services
Preceding station   Turkish State Railways   Following station Terminus Eastern Express (Temporary bus service) Irmak Terminus Lake Van Express (Temporary bus service) Southern Express (Temporary bus service)   Future service   Hipodrom toward Sincan Başkentray (2017) Yenişehir toward Kayaş

Ankara 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. On 29 October 2016 a second railway station, dedicated to high-speed rail, opened on former grounds of Ankara station. The new station, known as Ankara Tren Garı will host all high-speed trains while all other trains will continue to operate out of the Ankara railway station.

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.