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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 railway
A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge narrower than standard-gauge railway, standard . Most narrow-gauge railways are between and .
Since narrow-gauge railways are usually built with Minimum r ...
s in
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 ...
.
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 to
Çarşamba and was closed in 1971.
*
Chemin de Fer Moudania Brousse (Mudanya Bursa Railway) in
Bursa
( grc-gre, Προῦσα, Proûsa, Latin: Prusa, ota, بورسه, Arabic:بورصة) is a city in northwestern Turkey and the administrative center of Bursa Province. The fourth-most populous city in Turkey and second-most populous in the ...
, 42 km gauge, closed in 1948.
* A gauge railway for the construction of the
standard-gauge Baghdad Railway.
Park railway
* Eskişehir Sazova park railway, gauge, a line of 1200m was built at the campus of Osman Gazi Universitesi (OGÜ) in
Eskişehir, later transferred to Savova park, where a circuit line was built.(in service)(?)
Children's railways
Three gauge
children's railways were built in Turkey.
Children railways in Turkey
* Afyon children railway in Afyon(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)
References
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