Tarsus railway station

Tarsus Railway Station
Location Karden Langen Blv. Tarsus
Coordinates 36°55′15″N 34°53′08″E / 36.92083°N 34.88556°E / 36.92083; 34.88556Coordinates: 36°55′15″N 34°53′08″E / 36.92083°N 34.88556°E / 36.92083; 34.88556
Owned by TCDD
Platforms 2
Tracks 3
History
Opened 1886
Rebuilt 1949

Tarsus Railway Station (Turkish: Tarsus İstasyonu) is a railway station in the city of Tarsus. Tarsus is a city in Mersin Province, Turkey. (population 238276 as of 2010)[1]

The station

The station was built in 1886 to be one of the four intermediate stations on the 67 kilometres (42 mi) long Adana–Mersin Railway Line (others being Zeytinli, Yenice and Taşkent). It became a part of the Berlin-Baghdad Railway in 1911. This increased the traffic of the station. After the Republic of Turkey was proclaimed in 1923, Turkish government began the railway nationalization project. According to act no.1376 (Jan. 5, 1929) Adana-Mersin railway was also absorbed by the Chemins de Fer Ottomans d'Anatolie (Turkish: Osmanlı Anadolu Demiryolları), a subsidiary of the Turkish State Railways (TCDD). Presently the number of intermediate stations is 9.

The station building

The original station building doesn't survive. The present station building has been built in 1949. The building is symmetrical. The tolbooths are in the central section.[2]

Services

The majority of trains using Tarsus station are freight trains. The main passenger service is between Mersin and Adana, 23 times daily, all of which stop at Tarsus.[3] Some of these trains connect with main line trains at Yenice, the next station east of Tarsus.

Previous Turkish State Railways Next
Huzurkent
From Mersin
Adana-Mersin Regional
Yenice
Toward Adana
Mersin
Terminus
Friendship Train
Adana
Toward Aleppo

References

  1. ↑ Statistical Institute
  2. ↑ A report on Adana Mersin line stations (Turkish)
  3. ↑ Timetable (Turkish)
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