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Kapıkule railway station

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Owned by
  
TCDD

Opened
  
1971

Platforms in use
  
2

Electrified
  
1997

Owner
  
Turkish State Railways

Tracks
  
3

Kapıkule railway station

Location
  
İstasyon Cd, Kapkule, Turkey

Address
  
İstasyon Cd., 22130 Kemal Köyü/Edirne Merkez/Edirne, Turkey

Similar
  
Halkalı railway station, Edirne railway station, Emiralem railway station, Uşak railway station, Ödemiş railway station

Kapıkule railway station (Turkish: Kapıkule garı), is the westernmost railway station in Turkey. It is located towards the north of Kapıkule, the frontier town on the Turkey/Bulgaria border. Kapıkule is a border station and the terminus for domestic trains in European Turkey. Only the Bosphorus Express to Bucharest and the Balkan Express to Belgrade continue across the border into Bulgaria. The station is the busiest of the 5 operational border stations of the Turkish State Railways in Turkey.

Kapıkule station was opened in 1971 as part of the Edirne cut-off to bypass the main line of the former Oriental Railways in the Ottoman Empire. The construction of this line, however, resulted in the abandonment of Edirne's historic Karaağaç railway station, which became first the Rectorate (1998–2011) and later the Faculty of Fine Arts building of Trakya University.

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Kapıkule railway station Wikipedia