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URBAN RAIL SYSTEM PROJECTS Heart of the Iron Silk Road: MARMARAY

In collaboration with local authorities, TCDD has A 150-year-old dream that started when Sultan
developed a number of projects to enable high- Abdülmecit ordered an engineer named Perrault to
standard transportation for urban transport. In this design a project in 1860, MARMARAY will come to
regard; life on October 29th.

-EGERAY Surface lines on both sides of the Bosphorus
will connect to each other with the railway tunnel
TCDD has collaborated with İzmir Metropolitan that will go under the Bosphorus with MARMARAY.
Municipality to bring a permanent solution to İzmir’s The project will not only bring Istanbul’s two sides
traffic problem and launched the EGERAY project in together, it will also bring Asia and Europe together.
2011. Under the project, passenger transportation MARMARAY will be the most important step of the
began on 6 March 2011 on Aliağa-Cumaovası route. Iron Silk Road Project.
Around 132 thousand passengers are transported
daily with a total of 192 train services. 35 million 438 MARMARAY Project will feature the world’s
thousand passengers were carried in 2011, which deepest (60.46 m) immersed tube tunnel to be
reached 50 million and 500 thousand in 2012. The used by rail systems.
88-km long EGERAY will reach 188 kilometers with
the completion of Aliağa-Bergama and Bergama- MARMARAY will enable a 4-minute passage from
Selçuk lines. the 1387 meter-long immersed tube tunnel and
connect Europe and Asia together. Rail system’s
-BAŞKENTRAY share in İstanbul’s urban transportation will increase
Due to Ankara’s central role in the YHT operation, to around 28 percent.
a project called BAŞKENTRAY was developed to
create sufficient traffic capacity on Ankara’s east SILK ROAD TO BE REVIVED
and west for freight-passenger transportation and An uninterrupted railway connection will be
provide a metro-standard, modern service for provided between Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan,
suburban line on Sincan-Kayaş. In addition, the and Turkic Republics in Central Asia with the Baku-
project will provide a connection with Ankaray and Tbilisi-Kars Railway Project which aims to revive
metro. Suburban trains on Sincan-Kayaş have been the historic Silk Road and improve economic and
designed in project as 6 lines on Ankara-Behiçbey, cultural cooperation between countries. 73 km
5 lines on Behiçbey-Sincan, and 4 lines on Ankara- of the railway line will be in Turkey and 29 km
Kayaş to enable more convenient and organized will be in Georgia. Construction operations for
operation of conventional passenger and freight cars the Turkey-Georgia (Kars-Ahılkelek) railway line,
with high-speed trains. Within the project, 25 station which began in 2008, still continue. Moreover, the
buildings and waiting rooms as well as underpasses renewal works for the Ahılkelek-Baku section are
and overpasses will be built in consideration of the simultaneously underway.
needs of our handicapped citizens.

-GAZİRAY
Within the framework of a protocol made
with Gaziantep Metropolitan Municipality for
construction of a 22-km suburban line that starts
from the Organized Industrial Site to Small Industrial
Area, GAZİRAY will launch at Başpınar Station at the
OIZ, pass through Gaziantep’s city center and reach
Mustafayavuz (Gaziantep) at the Small Industrial
Area.

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