Arıkbaşı railway station is a railway station located just south of the village of
Arıkbaşı,
Turkey
Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a list of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolia, Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with ...
on the
Torbalı-Ödemiş railway. The
Turkish State Railways
The State Railways of the Republic of Turkey ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Devlet Demiryolları), abbreviated as TCDD, is a government-owned national railway company responsible with the ownership and maintenance of railway infrastructure in Turkey ...
operates two regional rail services from
Izmir to
Ödemiş
Ödemiş is a district of İzmir Province of Turkey, as well as the name of its central town (urban population 75,577 as of 2012), located 113 km southeast of the city of İzmir.
About 4 km north of Ödemiş town are the ruins of Hypa ...
and
Tire
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with ten daily trains in each direction. The station was built in 1883 by the
Oriental Railway Company
The Ottoman Railway Company, commonly referred to as the İzmir–Aydın Railway ( tr, İzmir-Aydın Demiryolu), is the oldest railway in Anatolia and second oldest railway in the Ottoman Empire. The railway was built by a British company to trans ...
and taken over by the state railways in 1935. Arıkbaşı is southeast of Basmane Terminal in Izmir.
References
External links
Turkish State Railways official site
Railway stations opened in 1883
1883 establishments in the Ottoman Empire
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