Halkapınar Maintenance Facility
The Halkapınar Maintenance Facility is the maintenance facility and depot for the Ä°zmir Metro. It is located in Halkapınar right next to Ä°zmir Metro's Halkapınar station as well as the Halkapınar railway station Halkapınar literally means ''ringed river''. It may be the following: * Halkapınar, Çınar *Halkapınar, Konya, a town in Konya *Halkapınar Transfer Center, a large multimodal transportation center in Ä°zmir Ä°zmir ( , ; ), also spelled Izmi .... The facility was built in 2000 along with the metro itself. It can store 140 cars on its yard and service up to 7 trains at a time. Overview There are 3 tracks that connect to the metro line: two tracks westbound (Hatay) and one track eastbound (Bornova-Evka 3). The facility also houses the headquarters for ...[...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ä°zmir Metro
Ä°zmir Metro ( tr, Ä°zmir Metrosu) is a metro system in Ä°zmir, Turkey that is in the process of being extended with new stations being put in service. The current system, consisting of one line, starts from Fahrettin Altay station Göztepe in the southern portion of the metropolitan area and runs towards northeast to end at Evka-3 in Bornova. Ä°zmir's metro line is long, and serves 17 stations as of 26 July 2014. Overview By 1990, it was thought that the existing public transport system in Izmir could no longer support the growing population. A plan was thought of to build a rapid transit network by rail to cope with this. A contract was signed in 1993, and the handover was in 1994. Construction had begun in 1995 and it was completed successfully in around 4 years. In May 2000, the system came into public service. Up to that moment, the total cost of the system had been $US600 million. Yapı Merkezi was the main contractor for all design and civil works (tunnels, bridges, ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Halkapınar Railway Station
Halkapınar literally means ''ringed river''. It may be the following: * Halkapınar, Çınar *Halkapınar, Konya, a town in Konya *Halkapınar Transfer Center, a large multimodal transportation center in Ä°zmir Ä°zmir ( , ; ), also spelled Izmir, is a metropolitan city in the western extremity of Anatolia, capital of the province of the same name. It is the third most populous city in Turkey, after Istanbul and Ankara and the second largest urban aggl .... * Halkapınar Facility, a maintenance facility and depot for the Ä°zmir Metro {{disambig ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |