The scope, route, stops, targets and history of Samsun-Kalin railway of which modernization works continue:
Project details
Owner: Transport Ministry/Turkish State Railways (TCDD)
Project cost: EUR 258.8 mn
Contractor: Çelikler – Gülermak – AZD Praha
Duration: 900 days
Target commission date: 2017
Route
Project details
Modernization of railway connecting Samsun to national rail network. Railway will have max curve radius of 196 meter and axle weight of 22.5 to. Max speed will be 120 km/h. There’ll be 47 tunnels 7.3 km long in total.
Line length: 378 km
Travel time: 300 min
Stops/connections
Samsun (Connection to Samsun port) – Ladik – Havza – Amasya – Kalın (connection to other passenger trains)
Targets
Travel time to drop from 9 hours to 5 hours. Capacity of line to increase from 21 train to 54 train. Ridership to double (from 95 mn passenger-km to 168 mn passgenger-km). Freight to increase by 30% (from 657 mn ton-km to 867 mn ton-km). All level-crossings to be equipped by barriers.
History
- 21 July 2014 – Project announced. Last date for offers is 3 November 2014.
- 20 January 2015 – Offers received. Best offer from Çelikler & Gülermak & AZD Praha consortium (€ 258.8 mn).
- 12 June 2015 – Contract inked. Contract period 900 days. Commission date 10th December 2017.
- 31 July 2015 – Kick off.
- 28 September 2015 – Railway section closed for traffic.
Cover Photo: Onur Uysal ©
Wow! That’s an ambitious project! Success to Turkish Railways!
Map shows westward extensions from Samsun Gar to Çarşamba and the industrial park. Will these be reopened or should they be deleted from the map?
Duh – eastward
it’s already open now..
Thanks for quick reply – you are right that the tramway from Samsun Gar through the industrial park to Tekkeköy is running now and is being extended to the airport. But as far as I know the train line to Çarşamba has been disused for some time.
Yes, but not due to Samsun-Kalin project.
By “open”, I mean there exists a line and no engineering works on that line.
There is most probably no traffic because it would be inefficient to run locos on that closed network with that little traffic.