The Chemin de Fer Moudania Brousse, (

English English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may also refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England ** English national ide ...

:''Mudanya Bursa Railway''), (

Turkish Turkish may refer to: *a Turkic language spoken by the Turks * of or about Turkey ** Turkish language *** Turkish alphabet ** Turkish people, a Turkic ethnic group and nation *** Turkish citizen, a citizen of Turkey *** Turkish communities and mi ...

:''Mudanya Bursa Demiryolu''), or CFMB was a long

railway Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a pre ...

line from the port of

Mudanya Mudanya (Mudania, el, τα Μουδανιά, ''ta Moudaniá'' l. (the site of ancient Apamea Myrlea) is a town and district of Bursa Province in the Marmara region of Turkey. It is located on the Gulf of Gemlik, part of the southern coast of t ...

Bursa ( grc-gre, Προῦσα, Proûsa, Latin: Prusa, ota, بورسه, Arabic:بورصة) is a city in northwestern Turkey and the administrative center of Bursa Province. The fourth-most populous city in Turkey and second-most populous in the ...

History

On August 14, 1871, the Ottoman Government started to build a line from the port city of

to the inland city of

. During construction, the line was sold to two French investors in 1874. The railway reached Bursa and was finished in 1875. The railway was to be continued to

Bozüyük Bozüyük is a town and district of Bilecik Province in the Marmara region of Turkey. Features Bozüyük is the biggest town in Bilecik Province. The district has an area of and borders İnegöl to the west, Pazaryeri to the northwest, Bileci ...

where it would connect with the CFOA line, but the tracks were never laid. On January 2, 1891

Georges Nagelmackers Georges Lambert Casimir Nagelmackers (born 25 June 1845 in Liège, Belgium; deceased 10 August 1905 in Villepreux, France) (60 years old) was a Belgian civil engineer and businessman. He was the founder of the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons ...

paid £27,000 for the rail line. In 1932 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 ...

(TCDD) bought the line. The railway was not very profitable, so in 1948, TCDD abandoned the line.

Bursaray

The Bursaray light rail system started operating in 2002 as an urban transit option. Although one of its lines follow approximately the same route, Bursaray does not go as far as Mudanya.

References

External links

CFMB Trains of Turkey Page
{{DEFAULTSORT:Chemin De Fer Moudania Brousse Railway lines in Turkey Railway lines opened in 1871 Railway lines closed in 1948 Ottoman railways Metre gauge railways in Turkey Closed railway lines in Turkey

History

Bursaray

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