Hello Bengt, Looks like you have all the Nohab built engines covered. Thanks for the pictures. According to the TCDD employee group, all new freight wagons...
Longer trains would require an increase of the length of sidings, passing loops, ... An other way is to increase the axle load, to 25t per axle or even more....
Jean-Patrick, Building a 250km/h high speed line between Ankara and Istanbul first, when most of the rest of the network is unsignaled and single track can...
Brian Unless things have changed Adana is the terminus and there certainly used to be a sleeper! Many happy trips particularly as a frequent traveller I was...
Last week I commented on a sighting I made of railway rolling stock on the UKRFerry rolling down the Bosphorous at Ortaköy. The windows I claimed to have seen...
Please feel free to follow the following link to a photo of the UKR Ferry and the rolling stock on the top deck. The weather was not good for photography as is...
I had the opportunity to return to Ankara from Mersin this week, so while my wife flew home on Saturday morning, I went from Mersin to Yenice and thence to...
Superb report, Brian... I will forward the "End of train lights" section to the Turkish group and try to find out the root cause of the problem. I have faced...
I noticed on a photo from my trip on the Cukurova Mavi Treni on Friday/Saturday (and thank you very much, Ozel for your kind comments)that the photograph I...
Brian From my observations tail lights are not considered important in Turkey, often there are multiple sets turned on down a passenger train with the last set...
Safak Aktas found this link on YouTube: check out the steamers on the Eregli-Armutcuk line Note: forwarded message attached. [Non-text portions of this message...
In 1995 and 1996 Region 2 held a "steam up" special with 45001 and myself and wife as guests of honour, a round trip of the line to Armutcuk followed by a...
Derya I was perhaps not clear enough, the Skyliner and Kreigslok were from Cankiri not on the Kara Deniz Eregli line. There only 45XXX and DE11XXX operated...
Malcolm, I also was not clear, what I meant to say was that "I didn't realize the kriegs worked the Zonguldak-Irmak line", not the Eregli-Armutcuk line. The ...
Derya I think the Kriegslok was only posted to Cankiri for excursion traffic, it later failed with I suspect a broken piston judging by the blow up the chimney...
Malcolm, Altan Ataman and Ergin Tonuk photographed two 56000's and one "Middle East" (46200) at ADF several years ago. One of these 56000's (56088, however the...
Hi Derya You spotted the picture! <http://www.1974.trainsofturkey.com/steam05/13766_56002_near_sivrice_12_april_75.jpg> I am not sure ODTU requested any...
Derya Some of the titles say Karabuk and show a Kriegs and my German isn't up to the article, so were they taken near Karabuk? Malcolm ps I would have loved to...
Malcolm, I think the photographer's nickname is Karabuk. The photos were taken on the bank north of Balikesir on the Bandirma line. Double heading and double...
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