Samsun Kalın railway project
The scope, route, stops, targets and history of modernization project of Samsun-Kalin railway:
Arslan: Investments to speed up
While many keep eyes on Turkey after repelling the coup attemp and declaring “OHAL – state of emergency” for 3 months, Transport Minister Mr Ahmet Arslan made statements about the way that Turkey’ll follow.
Marmaray project
The scope, route, stops, targets, cars, ridership figures and history of Marmaray project, 1st phase of which was commissioned and 2nd is under construction and which will connect Asian and European side of Istanbul by rail via tunnel under Bosphorus:
Last train to Ankara Station on 10th of July
The railway section going through Ankara will be closed for 18 months due to Baskentray Project.
Conventional wagons permitted to Istanbul
Conventional wagons will be able to arrive Halkali again after 3 years.
Nightmare for Europe-Turkey trains
Due to engineering works for rail bridges on Halkali-Cerkezkoy-Corlu railway, Halkali is getting prepared for another closure.
Modernization of Plovdiv-Kapikule railway completed
Bulgaria completed the modernization of two sections on 154-km-long Plovdiv-Dimitrovgrad-Svilengrad-Kapikule railway.
Tekfen-Dogus awarded for second phase of Izmir high speed line
Tekfen-Dogus consortium was awarded for the engineering works of Afyon-Usak section of Ankara (Polatli)-Izmir (Menemen) very high speed line.
Ankara Izmir very high speed line
The scope, route, stops, phases, targets and history of Ankara-Izmit very high speed line under construction:
New Transport Minister is Ahmet Arslan
Ahmet Arslan is assigned as Transport, Maritime Affairs and Communications Minister in new government of Turkey, where last Transport Minister Binali Yildirim is the Prime Minister.
