Pehlivanköy station ( tr, Pehlivanköy garı) is a station in

Pehlivanköy Pehlivanköy is a town and district of Kırklareli Province in the Marmara region of Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly ...

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. The station is located just before the

Edirne cut-off Edirne (, ), formerly known as Adrianople or Hadrianopolis (Greek: Άδριανούπολις), is a city in Turkey, in the northwestern part of the province of Edirne in Eastern Thrace. Situated from the Greek and from the Bulgarian borders, ...

splits off the Istanbul-Pythio railway.

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 regional train from

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to Kapıkule, which stops at Pehlivanköy. The station was opened on 4 April 1873, by the Oriental Railway. Between July 2005 and February 2011 the ''

Friendship Express The Friendship Express ( tr, Dostluk Ekspresi, el, Εξπρές Φιλίας, ''Exprés Filías''), was an international InterCity train jointly operated by the Turkish State Railways (TCDD) and TrainOSE from July 2005 to February 2011, linking ...

'', (an international

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train jointly operated by the Turkish State Railways (TCDD) and

TrainOSE Hellenic Train S.A., formerly TrainOSE S.A. ( el, ΤραινΟΣΕ Α.Ε., pronounced ''trenosé'') is a private railway company in Greece which currently operates passenger and freight trains on OSE lines. TrainOSE was acquired in September 201 ...

linking

's Sirkeci Terminal, Turkey and

Thessaloniki Thessaloniki (; el, Θεσσαλονίκη, , also known as Thessalonica (), Saloniki, or Salonica (), is the second-largest city in Greece, with over one million inhabitants in its Thessaloniki metropolitan area, metropolitan area, and the capi ...

, Greece) made scheduled stops at Pehlivanköy.

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Station timetable
{{DEFAULTSORT:Pehlivankoy railway station Railway stations in Kırklareli Province Railway stations opened in 1873 1873 establishments in the Ottoman Empire Pehlivanköy District Railway stations in Turkey opened in the 1870s