Çerkezköy railway station is a
railway station in
Çerkezköy
Çerkezköy is a town and district of Tekirdağ Province in the Marmara Region of Turkey.
Facts
Çerkezköy is located in inland Thrace just to the west of the outlying Istanbul districts of Çatalca and Silivri. Çerkezköy is an industrial area. ...
,
Turkey.
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 three daily (four in summer months) trains, from
Istanbul, that stop at the station. Two of these trains are international trains to
Sofia,
Bulgaria and
Bucharest,
Romania, the latter being seasonal. The other two trains are regional services to
Kapıkule and Istanbul.
Çerkezköy has two platforms serving three tracks. Adjacent to the platforms are a small freight yard, which handles traffic from the nearby logistics facility.
The station was originally opened in 1873 by the
Oriental Railway
The Chemins de fer Orientaux (English language, English: ''Oriental Railway''; Turkish language, Turkish: ''Rumeli Demiryolu'' or ''Ä°stanbul-Viyana Demiryolu'') (reporting mark: CO) was an Ottoman Empire, Ottoman railway company operating in R ...
as part of their railway from Istanbul to
Vienna.
Images
Çerkezköy railway station.jpg, The station platforms.
References
External links
Çerkezköy station timetable
{{Railway stations in Turkey
Railway stations in TekirdaÄŸ Province
Çerkezköy District
Railway stations opened in 1873
1873 establishments in the Ottoman Empire