Kurtalan railway station ( tr, Kurtalan Garı) is the easternmost

railway station 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 ...

Siirt Province Siirt Province, ( tr, , ku, Parêzgeha Sêrtê) is a province of Turkey, located in the southeast. The province borders Bitlis to the north, Batman to the west, Mardin to the southwest, Şırnak to the south, and Van to the east. It has an ar ...

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. It is also the eastern terminus of the Southern Kurtalan Express which connects

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and

Kurtalan Kurtalan ( ku, Misircê) is a municipality in the Kurtalan District of Siirt Province in Turkey. The municipality is populated by Kurds of the Pencenarî tribe and had a population of 36,273 in 2021. Government In the local elections of 2019 B ...

. Kurtalan station was opened in 1944 by 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 ...

. The station was built as part of the railway from

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to the

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ian border, via

Tatvan Tatvan ( ) is a city on the western shore of Lake Van. It is the chief city of Tatvan District within Bitlis Province in eastern Turkey, and has about 96,000 inhabitants. The current Mayor is Mehmet Emin Geylani ( AKP). The district is fully Kurdi ...

and

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, which began in 1937. The railway reached Kurtalan in 1940, but due to the mountainous terrain around

Lake Van Lake Van ( tr, Van Gölü; hy, Վանա լիճ, translit=Vana lič̣; ku, Gola Wanê) is the largest lake in Turkey. It lies in the far east of Turkey, in the provinces of Van and Bitlis in the Armenian highlands. It is a saline soda lake ...

, the route to Van was altered to begin at

Elazığ Elazığ () is a city in the Eastern Anatolia region of Turkey, and the administrative centre of Elazığ Province and Elazığ District. It is located in the uppermost Euphrates valley. The plain on which the city extends has an altitude of . El ...

, leaving Kurtalan as the eastern terminus of the railway. In 2017 the State Railways began planning a extension east to the provincial capital,

Siirt Siirt ( ar, سِعِرْد, Siʿird; hy, Սղերդ, S'gherd; syr, ܣܥܪܬ, Siirt; ku, Sêrt) is a city in southeastern Turkey and the seat of Siirt Province. The population of the city according to the 2009 census was 129,188. History Pr ...

TCDD Taşımacılık TCDD Taşımacılık A.Ş. ( en, TCDD Transport, reporting mark TCDDT) is a government-owned railway company responsible for the operations of most passenger and freight rail in Turkey. The company was formed on 14 June 2016, splitting off from th ...

operates a daily intercity train to

. (temporarily

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)

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Kurtalan station informationKurtalan station timetable
Railway stations in Siirt Province Railway stations opened in 1944 1944 establishments in Turkey