Mersin railway station
Railway station in Mersin, Turkey
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Mersin station (Turkish: Mersin istasyonu) is the main railway terminal in the city of Mersin, Turkey. The station is located in the ilçe (district) of Akdeniz. The station is in use since 1886.
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Mersin Railway Station from the south east. | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Owner | TCDD | ||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1886 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 1955 | ||||||||||||||||||
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The railway
The station was built in 1886 to be the western terminus of the 67 km (42 mi) long Adana–Mersin Railway Line. It became a part of the Berlin-Baghdad Railway in 1911. This increased the traffic of the station, for the Central Anatolia became the hinterland of the port. After the Republic of Turkey was proclaimed in 1923, Turkish government began the railway nationalization project. According to act no.1376 (Jan. 5, 1929) Mersin-Adana railway [1] was also absorbed by the Chemins de Fer Ottomans d'Anatolie (Turkish: Osmanlı Anadolu Demiryolları), a subsidiary of the Turkish State Railways (TCDD).
The station
Trains
The majority of the trains using Mersin station are freight trains. The main passenger train is between Mersin and Adana, 23 times a day with 9 stops in between.[2] Some of these trains are connection trains to main line trains, the transfer station being Yenice.[3]