Hi Yeni yillar kutlu olsun. Thats Happy New Year in Turkish (or as close as a Yabangi like me can get it) Anyway my questions are 1 why doesn't this group...
Happy New Year to all! I don't know about the Drunken Siemens Bogies (Bombardier bogies on the new Acela train-sets on the NorthEast corridor in the U.S. seem...
So the only things that are left on the cars are bogies and chassis. The cars are almost like new TVS2000 cars, but bogies are the old (Schileren?)type. ...
... This is what the Australian Railways used to do. I was in Turkey in Feb 1976 where I saw a German built 0-6-0 stored in Sivas Works. I wonder if is is...
Hi All My understanding from the Talbot book as well as other sources such as A.E Durrant is the ORC Garrat was already out of service when TCDD took it over....
Hi Malcolm My current list of closed line is at: http://www.trainweb.org/demiryolu/network.htm#Forgotten This list is quite short and needs to be worked on....
Hi Where are the cars used? The Siemens bogied car was TVS Sleeper 039, and was on the Izmir run, every bend it hit the bump stops - even on the main Istanbul...
Hi My point was if not taken into stock why the TCDD numberplate? It is not on the builders photo, and the fact that it is in Eskisehir at least 12 years...
UIC statistics for 1936 (1935 info repeated), 1937 and 1946 give for TCDD respectively one, two, and one locomotive with 6 or more driving axles. If the one in...
... That could be also some of the three 1CC (2-6-6-0) Mallet n°601 to 603 of the CO. See below the message I send last April regarding these engines. The...
I thought about that and my assumption is that number plate must be from the ORC: - many if not all the ORC engine carried latin numerals. This was also the...
In ORC found three essential different Railway Companies one of them is Rumeli Railways also known as used in European Ottoman Empire, the second is ...
Dear Jeff, There is two books published in turkish about Hedjaz Railway, one of them is a photo album and in this book find comparing photos of yesterday and...
CO had 3 locomotives in stock with 6 driving axles 31 Dec 1927 and 31 Dec 1928. None in 1931. Then TCDD had one in 1935. No further details from UIC statistics...
I looked at the map for Deizlik any suggestions? But can we start with something more real? In Izmir there are the remains of a line behind Halkapinar depot,...
Line behind the Halkapinar station goes to METAS (Izmir Metallurji Fabrikasi T.A.S) the largest continuous casting & milling factory of Turkey until late ...
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Hi Super Info, thanks. One question though, is the end of the Metro co-incident with the old Bornova Station, or does it go further towards the Ege Campus? ...
... Unfortunately it even goes short of the old Bornova station (By 200 - 300 meters I guess), let alone going further towards the campus. The reason? I really...
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Hi Ozzgur Bey Many thanks, when I rode the Bornova it was one of the 4 wheel railbus type units, so we didn't have to cross the road, I saw the rusty tracks...
HI All Last time I travelled through Sincan (a month ago now) I noticed an additional platform with people waiting for a service and the sign seemed to say...
According to my friends at TCDD many lines are now closed, such as KD Eregeli - Armutcuk, Samson - Azot and Samson - Carsamba. On the other hand there is now...
Dear Malcolm, I do not know the answers to other questions but electrification ends under the bridge of Beypazarı road, just before the gate of military base....
From Dec 5th Hi I'm in Turkey having a great time, I have got copies of some of the most recent working timetables from 1999! (but not accurate for train ...
Wow Quick answer! The electrification is new in the last 3 years isn't it? Malcolm--- In Turk-Rail@yahoogroups.com, Ergin Tönük <tonuk@m...> ... ends ... ...
I assume electrification is rather new although the track is rather old. I was not in Turkey between 1998 and 2000, and when I was back, I found E 52 500's and...
Dear Malcolm, I have a "tarife" for train crew for 1996 for Ankara-Haydarpaşa line. The lowest speed limit for switches on this line is 30 km/h, and 90 km/h ...
The newest "tarife" states different speeds for different switches. For most of the switches in Ankara-İstanbul line, entrance speed is 70 km/h and exit speed...
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