The scope, route, stops, targets and history of modernization project of Samsun-Kalin railway:
Project overview
- Owner: Ministry of Transport/Turkish State Railways (TCDD)
- Contractor: Çelikler-Gülermak-AZD Praha
- Contract date: 6/2015
- Contract duration: 900 days
- Contract deadline: 12/2017
- Contract value: EUR 258.8 mn
Location
Stops/connections
Samsun (Connection to Samsun port) – Ladik – Havza – Amasya – Kalın (connection to other passenger trains)
Trains
Project details
Modernization and signalization 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. All level-crossings to be equipped by barriers.
- Line length: 378 km
- Travel time: 300 min
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).
Cover Photo: Onur Uysal ©
Categories: Railway Infrastructure
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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.