Tarsus railway station


Tarsus station is a railway station in the city of Tarsus. Tarsus is a city in Mersin Province, Turkey.

The station

The station was built in 1886 to be one of the four intermediate stations on the long Adana–Mersin Railway Line. It became a part of the Berlin-Baghdad Railway in 1911. This increased the traffic of the station. After the Republic of Turkey was proclaimed in 1923, Turkish government began the railway nationalization project. According to act no.1376 Adana-Mersin railway was also absorbed by the Chemins de Fer Ottomans d'Anatolie, a subsidiary of the Turkish State Railways. Presently the number of intermediate stations is 9.

The station building

The original station building no longer exists. The present station building was built in 1949. The building is symmetrical. The tollbooths are in the central section.

Services

The majority of trains using Tarsus station are freight trains. The main passenger service is between Mersin and Adana, 23 times daily, all of which stop at Tarsus. Some of these trains connect with main line trains at Yenice, the next station east of Tarsus.