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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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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 line runs parallel with the high-speed line several times.
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482:Mesopotamia
474:Marmara Sea
308:railway in
306:electrified
205:Track gauge
188:Line length
151:Operator(s)
67:Operational
1713:Categories
1577:High-speed
1565:District 8
1479:District 7
1399:District 6
1386:Van–Sufian
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1282:District 4
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977:5x Hourly
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761:High-speed
709:High-speed
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389:Başkentray
135:Heavy rail
1306:Kars–Baku
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867:5x Daily
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793:Eskişehir
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697:9x Daily
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634:Eskişehir
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298:Turkish
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