Tarsus Railway Station
Tarsus Railway Station ( is a train station in the city of Tarsus

Tarsus, Mersin

Tarsus is a historic city in south-central Turkey, 20 km inland from the Mediterranean Sea. It is part of the Adana-Mersin Metropolitan Area, the fourth-largest metropolitan area in Turkey with a population of 2.75 million...

. Tarsus is a city in Mersin Province

Mersin Province

The Mersin Province is a province in southern Turkey, on the Mediterranean coast between Antalya and Adana. The provincial capital is the city of Mersin and the other major town is Tarsus, birthplace of St Paul...

, Turkey

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

. (population 238276 as of 2010)

The station

The station was built in 1886 to be one of the four intermediate stations on the 67 kilometres (41.6 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

Chemins de Fer Ottomans d'Anatolie

The Chemins de Fer Ottomans d'Anatolie was an Ottoman railway founded on October 4, 1888. The railway was headquartered in İstanbul.The CFOA was the busiest railway in the Ottoman Empire and was one of the two railways operating into İstanbul, along with the Chemins de fer Orientaux...

 (Turkish: Osmanlı Anadolu Demiryolları), a subsidiary of the Turkish State Railways

Turkish State Railways

The State Railways of the Turkish Republic or TCDD is the government owned, national railway carrier in the Republic of Turkey, headquartered in Ankara...

 (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.

Services

Majority of the trains using Tarsus station are freight trains. The main passenger train is between Mersin

Mersin Railway Station

The Mersin Railway Station is the main train station in the city of Mersin, Turkey. The station is located in the district of Akdeniz. The station is in use since 1886.- The railway :...

 and Adana

Adana Railway Station

Adana Central Station is a train station in Adana and one of the major railway hubs in Turkey. The station is located at the Uğur Mumcu Square, steps to the Vilayet station of the metro.- History :...

, 23 times a day all of which has a stop in Tarsus . Some of these trains are connection trains to main line trains, the transfer station being Yenice

Yenice Railway Station

The Yenice Railway Station is a railway station in Yenice. Yenice station is on the busy Adana-Mersin Main Line. The station was built in 1886 by the Mersin-Tarsus-Adana Railway.-Service:...

 , the station just east of Tarsus.

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