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are multiple track, with the remaining 341.4 km (212.1 mi) being single track. The multiple-track sections are three disconnected stretches and vary from double-track, triple-track and quadruple-track, with a short 7.2 km (4.5 mi) stretch in Ankara consisting of a 5-track mainline. The first multi-track stretch begins at
Haydarpaşa station in Istanbul and continues 44.1 km (27.4 mi) as a triple-track main to
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The line is mostly single track, although with significant multiple-track sections. Despite being mostly single track, the railway still has the longest multiple-track stretch in Turkey, excluding high-speed lines. Out of the total 576.6 km (358.3 mi) railway, 235.2 km (146.1 mi)
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were drawn up but since managing the line was financially difficult for the
Ottoman Bank, the plans were scrapped and the operation of the line was sold to a British company in April 1880. The extension of the line to central Anatolia was revived under the new British investors, who formed an
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Before the opening of the Ankara-Istanbul high-speed railway in 2009, the
Istanbul–Ankara railway was the busiest line in Turkey as well as the primary inter-city route, connecting Istanbul with Ankara through five provincial capitals:
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as the chairman, to finance construction. Caillard was unable to gather the necessary capital forcing the
Ottoman government to transfer construction to another company. The concession was awarded to
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commuter rail, while the south track is used for intercity/high-speed and freight rail. From Gebze, the line becomes a double-track railway and continues 123.5 km (76.7 mi) southeast to
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and is the only railway that was built by the imperial government itself. The purpose of the railway was to connect the several towns along the northeastern coast of the
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as well as other private ports and passes through several important industrial regions in Turkey. In 2015 the railway carried 6.1% of all freight rail traffic in Turkey.
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The
Istanbul-Ankara railway also hosts high-speed trains in certain sections, thus having the second-highest speed limit of conventional railways in Turkey, after the
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The CFOA started construction further from Izmit in May 1889 and purchased the
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The line runs parallel with the high-speed line several times.
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Istanbul to Izmit. This railway was built by the
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1713:Standard gauge railways in Turkey
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1450:Köprüağzı–Kahramanmaraş
1323:Hanlı–Bostankaya bypass
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283:Istanbul–Ankara railway
29:Istanbul–Ankara railway
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672:Bozüyük YHT
668:Bilecik YHT
471:Mesopotamia
463:Marmara Sea
297:railway in
295:electrified
194:Track gauge
177:Line length
140:Operator(s)
56:Operational
1702:Categories
1566:High-speed
1554:District 8
1468:District 7
1388:District 6
1375:Van–Sufian
1346:District 5
1271:District 4
1238:Çatal–Tire
1193:District 3
1124:District 2
1050:District 1
978:References
966:5x Hourly
930:7x Hourly
806:High-speed
750:High-speed
698:High-speed
644:High-speed
524:Train type
517:Operations
378:Başkentray
124:Heavy rail
1295:Kars–Baku
882:6x Daily
856:5x Daily
852:Adapazarı
822:3x Daily
812:Eskişehir
782:Eskişehir
738:3x Daily
730:Eskişehir
686:9x Daily
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623:Eskişehir
614:Balıkesir
575:Eskişehir
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546:Halkalı
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343:Bilecik
335:Arifiye
287:Turkish
212:⁄
157:History
115:Service
86:Termini
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1171:Branch
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957:Ankara
949:Sincan
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423:Sincan
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307:Ankara
299:Turkey
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