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common-carrier A common carrier in common law countries (corresponding to a public carrier in some civil law systems,Encyclopædia Britannica CD 2000 "Civil-law public carrier" from "carriage of goods" usually called simply a ''carrier'') is a person or compan ...

narrow-gauge railways in

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 ...

Historical

* The Palamutluk–Balya–Mancılık railway, a gauge, line serving coal and lead mines, operating as early as 1884 and closed by 1945. * The Ilıca–Palamutluk railway, a gauge, line operating from 1924 until 1950. It connected with the 600mm gauge Balya line and transported ore and coal to the coast for shipment. * Samsun–Çarşamba Railway Line, gauge, 37 km of a planned 150 km line was actually built, from

Samsun Samsun, historically known as Sampsounta ( gr, Σαμψούντα) and Amisos (Ancient Greek: Αμισός), is a city on the north coast of Turkey and is a major Black Sea port. In 2021, Samsun recorded a population of 710,000 people. The cit ...

Çarşamba Çarşamba is a town and district (ilçe) of Samsun Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey, in the center of the Çarşamba Plain. It is the second largest district of the Samsun province after Bafra. The mayor is Halit Doğan ( AKP). Ferhan ...

and was closed in 1971. *

Chemin de Fer Moudania Brousse The Chemin de Fer Moudania Brousse, (English:''Mudanya Bursa Railway''), ( Turkish:''Mudanya Bursa Demiryolu''), or CFMB was a long railway line from the port of Mudanya to Bursa. History On August 14, 1871, the Ottoman Government started to bu ...

(Mudanya Bursa Railway) in Bursa, 42 km gauge, closed in 1948. * A gauge railway for the construction of the

standard-gauge A standard-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge of . The standard gauge is also called Stephenson gauge (after George Stephenson), International gauge, UIC gauge, uniform gauge, normal gauge and European gauge in Europe, and SGR in Ea ...

Baghdad Railway Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cairo. It is located on the Tigris near the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon and the Sassanid Persian capital of Ctesiphon ...

Park railway

* Eskişehir Sazova park railway, gauge, a line of 1200m was built at the campus of Osman Gazi Universitesi (OGÜ) in

Eskişehir Eskişehir ( , ; from "old" and "city") is a city in northwestern Turkey and the capital of the Eskişehir Province. The urban population of the city is 898,369 with a metropolitan population of 797,708. The city is located on the banks of the ...

, later transferred to Savova park, where a circuit line was built.(in service)(?)

Children's railways

Three gauge

children's railway A children's railway or pioneer railway is an extracurricular educational institution, where children interested in rail transport can learn railway professions. This phenomenon originated in the USSR and was greatly developed in Soviet times. T ...

s were built in Turkey.
Children railways in Turkey * Afyon children railway in

Afyon Afyonkarahisar (, tr, afyon "poppy, opium", ''kara'' "black", ''hisar'' "fortress") is a city in western Turkey, the capital of Afyon Province. Afyon is in the mountainous countryside inland from the Aegean coast, south-west of Ankara along t ...

(closed) * Ankara Gençlik Park Railway, in

Ankara Ankara ( , ; ), historically known as Ancyra and Angora, is the capital of Turkey. Located in the central part of Anatolia, the city has a population of 5.1 million in its urban center and over 5.7 million in Ankara Province, maki ...

(removed) * Izmir International Fair Park Railway in Izmir(removed)

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