Van Pier railway station (Turkish: Van İskele istasyonu) is a railway station and pier in Van, Turkey. Situated on the eastern shore of Lake Van, 5.8 km (3.6 mi) west of the city center, the station serves as a connection between modes of transport, with two slips carrying a total of seven tracks. TCDD Taşımacılık operates a ferry between Van and Tatvan, which also carries freight railcars and automobiles across the lake. Up until July 2015, the Trans-Asia Express, from Tehran, Iran, stopped at the station. Passengers would travel to Tatvan via ferry, where the western half of the train would continue to Ankara.[1] As of mid-2015, freight trains are the only rail traffic at the station. Van Pier is the western terminus of the Van-Sufian railway, which is not connected to the rest of the Turkish railway network.
VAN İSKELE | ||||||||||||||||
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| TCDD ferry pier | ||||||||||||||||
 Van pier in 1985. | ||||||||||||||||
| General information | ||||||||||||||||
| Location | Göl 1 Sk., İskele Mah., 65040 Van Merkez/Van Turkey | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 38°31′01″N 43°18′31″E / 38.5170°N 43.3085°E | |||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Turkish State Railways | |||||||||||||||
| Operated by | TCDD Taşımacılık | |||||||||||||||
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| Platforms | 1 island platform | |||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 7 | |||||||||||||||
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| Structure type | At-grade | |||||||||||||||
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| Opened | 1971 | |||||||||||||||
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Van Pier station was opened in 1971 by the Turkish State Railways.[2]
References
edit- ^ "Ankara-Tehran train". travel.railturkey.org. Retrieved 5 December 2017.
- ^ "TCDD History". trinsofturkey.com. Retrieved 5 December 2017.