Tarsus railway station
TARSUS | |||||||||||||||||||
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TCDD Taşımacılık | |||||||||||||||||||
Line(s) | TCDD Taşımacılık: Adana-Mersin Regional Mersin-İsalahiye Regional Mersin-İskenderun Regional | ||||||||||||||||||
Platforms | 2 (1 island platform, 1 side platform | ||||||||||||||||||
Tracks | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Structure type | At-grade | ||||||||||||||||||
Parking | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||
History | |||||||||||||||||||
Opened | 2 August 1886 | ||||||||||||||||||
Rebuilt | 1949 | ||||||||||||||||||
Services | |||||||||||||||||||
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Tarsus station (
railway station in the city of Tarsus. Tarsus is a city in Mersin Province, Turkey (population 350,000 as of 2022).[1]
The station
The station was built in 1886 to be one of the four intermediate stations on the 67 kilometres (42 mi) long
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 no longer exists. The present station building was built in 1949. The building is symmetrical. The tollbooths are in the central section.[2]
Services
The majority of trains using Tarsus station are freight trains. The main passenger service is between
Yenice
, the next station east of Tarsus.
References
- TÜİK. Retrieved 19 September 2023.
- ^ A report on Adana Mersin line stations (in Turkish) Archived 2011-07-22 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Timetable (in Turkish)