Selçuk Railway Station
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Selçuk station is a railway station in
Selçuk Selçuk is a town in İzmir Province in the Aegean Region of Turkey. It is located northeast of the ancient city of Ephesus, that was once home to the Temple of Artemis, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Its previous Greek name, Ag ...
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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 ...
. 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 three regional train services from Izmir to
Söke Söke is a town and the largest district of Aydın Province in the Aegean region of western Turkey, 54 km (34 miles) south-west of the city of Aydın, near the Aegean coast. It had 121.940 population in 2020. It neighbours are Germencik fro ...
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Nazilli Nazilli is the largest town in Aydın Province in the Aegean region of western Turkey, east of the city of Aydın, on the road to Denizli. Etymology Nazilli is a Turkish name that has somehow evolved from the former (also Turkish) name of ...
and
Denizli Denizli is an industrial city in the southwestern part of Turkey and the eastern end of the alluvial valley formed by the river Büyük Menderes, where the plain reaches an elevation of about . Denizli is located in the country's Aegean Region. ...
, all servicing Selçuk. The station was originally built in 1862 by the
Ottoman 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. On 9 September 2017, the Southern Line of the
İZBAN İZBAN, previously known as Egeray, is a commuter rail system serving İzmir and its metropolitan area, mainly on a north–south axis, via two lines: The Northern Line (IZBAN), Northern Line and the Southern Line (IZBAN), Southern Line. Averagin ...
commuter rail system was extended from Tepeköy to Selçuk. As of September 2017, İZBAN operates 10 trains between the two stations.


Gallery

Selcuk station.jpg, A southbound regional on track 1. Selcuk station 3.jpg, The station building. Selcuk station 2.jpg, Selçuk station before the İZBAN platform was built.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Selcuk station Railway stations in Ä°zmir Province Railway stations opened in 1862