Tarsus station ( tr, Tarsus İstasyonu) is a

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 prep ...

in the city of Tarsus. Tarsus is a city in

Mersin Province Mersin Province ( tr, ), formerly İçel Province ( tr, ), is a province in southern Turkey, on the Mediterranean coast between Antalya and Adana. The provincial capital and the biggest city in the province is Mersin, which is composed of f ...

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula in ...

. (population 238276 as of 2010)

The station

The station was built in 1886 to be one of the four intermediate stations on the long Adana–Mersin Railway Line (others being Zeytinli, Yenice and Taşkent). It became a part of the Berlin-Baghdad Railway in 1911. This increased the traffic of the station. After the Republic of Turkey was proclaimed in 1923, Turkish government began the railway nationalization project. According to act no.1376 (Jan. 5, 1929) Adana-Mersin railway was also absorbed by the

Chemins de Fer Ottomans d'Anatolie The Chemins de Fer Ottomans d'Anatolie ( tr, Osmanlı Anadolu Demiryolları, en, Anatolian Railway), founded on 4 October 1888, was a railway company that operated in the Ottoman Empire.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). Presently the number of intermediate stations is 9.

The station building

The original station building no longer exists. The present station building was built in 1949. The building is symmetrical. The tollbooths are in the central section.

Services

The majority of trains using Tarsus station are freight trains. The main passenger service is between Mersin and

Adana Adana (; ; ) is a major city in southern Turkey. It is situated on the Seyhan River, inland from the Mediterranean Sea. The administrative seat of Adana province, it has a population of 2.26 million. Adana lies in the heart of Cilicia, wh ...

, 23 times daily, all of which stop at Tarsus.Timetable
/ref> Some of these trains connect with main line trains at Yenice, the next station east of Tarsus.

References

{{Mersin Province Buildings and structures in Mersin Province Railway stations in Mersin Province Tarsus, Mersin Transport in Mersin Province Railway stations opened in 1886