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The State Railways of the Republic of Turkey ( Turkish: Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Devlet Demiryolları ), abbreviated as TCDD, is a government-owned national railway company responsible with the ownership and maintenance of railway infrastructure in Turkey, as well as the planning and construction of new lines. TCDD was formed on 4 June 1929 as part ...
The TCDD Taşımacılık A.Ş. operates a 12,532 km long system throughout Turkey and currently 90% of the network is served by passenger rail.. Intercity services. The second main intercity service of the company are the mainline trains known as Express or Main Line (Turkish: Ekspres, Ana Hat).
The TCDD Open Air Steam Locomotive Museum ( Turkish: TCDD Açık Hava Buharlı Lokomotif Müzesi) is a railroad museum in Ankara, Turkey, which focuses on the history of steam locomotives that operated on the Turkish State Railways. The museum was originally located in a park adjacent to Ankara Central Station, and when the property was needed ...
Yüksek Hızlı Tren or YHT (English: High Speed Train) is a high-speed rail service in Turkey, operated by TCDD Taşımacılık, and is the railway's premier intercity train service. As of 2022, the network spans 1,385 km (860.6 mi) and services major cities like Istanbul, Ankara, Eskişehir, İzmit, Konya and Sivas. Expansion of the system is ...
TCDD Transport ( Turkish: TCDD Taşımacılık A.Ş., reporting mark TCDDT) is a government-owned railway company responsible for the operations of most passenger and freight rail in Turkey. The company was formed on 14 June 2016, splitting off from the Turkish State Railways (TCDD) to take over railway operations, while TCDD would continue to ...
TCDD 45151 Class. The TCDD ( Turkish Republic Railways) 45151 Class is a class of 2-8-0 steam locomotives which were acquired from the British War Department to the LMS Stanier Class 8F design. They had a maximum speed of 43 miles per hour (70 km/h), much like their British counterparts. [1]
YHT is the only high-speed rail service in Turkey, with two types of EMU train models operating at speeds of up to 250 km/h (155 mph) ( HT65000) [3] or 300 km/h (186 mph) ( HT80000 ). [1] [2] On 13 March 2009, the first phase of the Ankara–Istanbul high-speed railway entered service between Ankara and Eskişehir.
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