Kayaş railway station is a

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...

on the Başkentray

commuter rail Commuter rail or suburban rail is a Passenger train, passenger rail service that primarily operates within a metropolitan area, connecting Commuting, commuters to a Central business district, central city from adjacent suburbs or commuter town ...

line in

Ankara Ankara is the capital city of Turkey and List of national capitals by area, the largest capital by area in the world. Located in the Central Anatolia Region, central part of Anatolia, the city has a population of 5,290,822 in its urban center ( ...

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. Located in the Kayaş neighborhood of the Mamak district, it is the eastern terminus of the line. The station closed down in July 2016 and the platforms were demolished, expanded and rebuilt; Kayaş station reopened on 12 April 2018 and serves commuter, regional and intercity trains. As of 2023, it now also serves as a station on the Ankara–Sivas high-speed railway operated by YHT. The station house was built in the Turkish Neoclassical style, during the

First national architectural movement The First national architecture movement (), also referred to in Turkey as the National architecture Renaissance (), or Turkish Neoclassical architecture (), was a period of Turkish architecture that was most prevalent between 1908 and 1930 but ...

in Turkey. Before 2016, Kayaş station had two

island platforms An island platform (also center platform (American English) or centre platform (British English)) is a station layout arrangement where a single railway platform, platform is positioned between two railway track, tracks within a railway station, ...

serving four tracks. (Two for commuter trains and two for regional and intercity trains) The station has been expanded to seven tracks with three platforms. Two of the seven tracks will serve as a layover siding for commuter trains.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kayas railway station Railway stations in Ankara Province Altındağ, Ankara Railway stations in Turkey opened in the 1920s Railway stations in Turkey closed in 2016