List of railway lines in Turkey

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

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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

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

Railway lines in Turkey

District 1

Main	Istanbul–Ankara Istanbul–Pythio Pehlivanköy–Svilengrad
Branch	Arifye–Adapazarı Muratlı–Tekirdağ Mandıra–Kırklareli ~~Feneryolu–Fenerbahçe~~

District 2

Main	Istanbul–Ankara Ankara–Kars Irmak–Zonguldak Ulukışla–Boğazköprü ~~Ereğli–Armutçuk~~
Branch	Sincan–Kazan Soda

District 3

Main	İzmir–Eğirdir¹ İzmir–Afyonkarahisar Manisa–Bandırma Torbalı–Ödemiş
Branch	Çatal–Tire Ortaklar–Söke Goncalı–Denizli Menemen–Aliağa Çobanisa–Kemalpaşa

District 4

Main	Ankara–Kars Kars–Tbilisi Kars–Baku Samsun–Kalın Samsun–Çarşamba
Branch	Hanlı–Bostankaya bypass Tecer–Kangal bypass Samsun–Azot

District 5

Main	Malatya–Çetinkaya Fevzipașa–Kurtalan Yolçatı–Tatvan Van–Sufian

District 6

Main	Adana–Mersin Konya–Yenice Fevzipașa–Kurtalan Toprakkale–İskenderun Adana–Aleppo Narlı–Karkamış Aleppo–Nusaybin
Branch	Köprüağzı–Kahramanmaraş Şenyurt–Mardin

District 7

Main	Eskişehir–Konya Afyon–Karakuyu Balıkesir–Alayunt İzmir–Afyonkarahisar İzmir–Eğirdir
Branch	Gümüşgün–Burdur Bozanönü–Isparta Kütahya–Seyitömer Tavşanlı–Tunçbilek Sütlaç–Çivril

District 8
(High-speed rail)

High-speed	Ankara–Istanbul Ankara–Sivas Polatlı–Konya
Higher-speed	Konya–Karaman

Under Construction

Bandırma–Bursa–Osmaneli
Mersin–Adana–Gaziantep
- Fevzipașa bypass
- Nurdağı–Başpınar
Istanbul–Edirne–Kapıkule
Polatlı–Afyonkarahisar–İzmir
Sivas–Erzincan
Yerköy–Kayseri

Railways in italics are not in service.
¹ Partially disused.

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