Tarsus railway station
Railway station in Tarsus, Turkey
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Tarsus station (Turkish: Tarsus İstasyonu) is a railway station in the city of Tarsus. Tarsus is a city in Mersin Province, Turkey (population 350,000 as of 2022).[1]
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| Location | Karden Langen Blv., Yeşilyurt Mah., Tarsus 33410 Tarsus Turkey | ||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 36°55′15″N 34°53′08″E | ||||||||||||||||||
| System | TCDD regional rail station | ||||||||||||||||||
| Owner | Turkish State Railways | ||||||||||||||||||
| Operator | TCDD Taşımacılık | ||||||||||||||||||
| Lines | 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 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 2 August 1886 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 1949 | ||||||||||||||||||
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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 no longer exists. The present station building was built in 1949. The building is symmetrical. The tollbooths are in the central section.[2]