GAZİANTEP | ||||||||||||||||
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 Gaziantep train station | ||||||||||||||||
| General information | ||||||||||||||||
| Location | İstasyon Meydanı, Yaprak Mah. 27080 Şehitkamil, Gaziantep Turkey | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 39°55′01″N 32°57′06″E / 39.9169°N 32.9517°E | |||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Turkish State Railways | |||||||||||||||
| Operated by | TCDD Taşımacılık | |||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 3 (1 side platform, 2 island platforms) | |||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 5 | |||||||||||||||
| Construction | ||||||||||||||||
| Structure type | At-Grade | |||||||||||||||
| Parking | Yes | |||||||||||||||
| History | ||||||||||||||||
| Opened | 1953 | |||||||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 2017-18 (Platforms) | |||||||||||||||
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Gaziantep Railway Station is a station in Gaziantep, Turkey. The station was built in 1953 to provide Turkish State Railways service to the city of Gaziantep.
The station will serve as the terminus of the Mersin to Gaziantep High Speed Rail Project being constructed by 2024. The project will connect the southern Turkish cities of Mersin, Adana, Osmaniye and Gaziantep.[1]
The station is located in the heart of Gaziantep, at the intersection of Zafer and İstasyon Streets.[2]: 205 İstasyon Street was built as, and continues to be, a major axis in central Gaziantep, lined with trees and home to a number of important public buildings.[2]: 202–3
- ^ "Project History". Mersin Gaziantep YHT. Retrieved 1 April 2023.
- ^ a b Aycı, Hilal; Özer, Derya Güleç; Güleç, Abdulkadir (2020). "A Spatial Analysis of Gaziantep Railway and Its Station Throughout History". Periodica Polytechnica Architecture. 51 (2): 196–208. doi:10.3311/PPar.15799. S2CID 225257359. Retrieved 19 February 2023.