Diyarbakır railway station (Turkish: Diyarbakır garı) is the main railway station in the city of Diyarbakır, Turkey. TCDD Taşımacılık operates the Southern Kurtalan Express to Ankara[1] or Kurtalan[1] and a daily regional train to Batman.
DİYARBAKIR | ||||||||||||||||
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| TCDD intercity and regional rail station | ||||||||||||||||
 The Art Deco station building in 2010. | ||||||||||||||||
| General information | ||||||||||||||||
| Location | İstasyon Cd., Şehitlik Mah. 21010 Yenişehir/Diyarbakır Turkey | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 37°54′49″N 40°12′58″E / 37.9136°N 40.2160°E | |||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Turkish State Railways | |||||||||||||||
| Operated by | TCDD Taşımacılık | |||||||||||||||
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| Platforms | 2 (1 side platform, 1 island platform) | |||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 3 | |||||||||||||||
| Construction | ||||||||||||||||
| Structure type | At-grade | |||||||||||||||
| Parking | Located in front of station building. | |||||||||||||||
| Architectural style | Art Deco | |||||||||||||||
| History | ||||||||||||||||
| Opened | November 1935 | |||||||||||||||
| Services | ||||||||||||||||
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The station was built by the Turkish State Railways in 1935 as part of the railway from Fevzipaşa.[2] The station building was built in the Art Deco style, similar to the station buildings of Sivas, Manisa and Malatya.[3]
Diyarbakır station consists of one side platform and one island platform serving three tracks. A freight yard is also present on the station grounds.
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "Güney Kurtalan Ekspresi". tcddseferleri.com. Retrieved 22 October 2017.
- ^ As, Erdal (2013). Cumhuriyet Dönemi Ulaşım Politikaları (in Turkish). Ankara: Atatürk Araştırma Merkezi. p. 108.
- ^ Erdoğan, Hacı Abdullah; Başar, Mehmet Emin (September 2009). "Osmanlı'dan Cumhuriyet'e Türkiye'de Tren Garları" (in Turkish): 38. Retrieved 22 October 2017.
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