Kars railway station

Kars
TCDD
Location Bayram Acar Sk, Kars, Turkey
Coordinates 40°21′43″N 43°03′45″E / 40.361865°N 43.062405°E / 40.361865; 43.062405Coordinates: 40°21′43″N 43°03′45″E / 40.361865°N 43.062405°E / 40.361865; 43.062405
Owned by TCDD
Line(s) Eastern Express
Kars-Akyaka Regional
Platforms 2
Tracks 6
Construction
Structure type At-grade
Other information
Status In Operation
Station code 4594
History
Opened 1899
Rebuilt 1962

The Kars railway station (Turkish: Kars Garı) is a railway station, serving the eastern Turkish city of Kars. It is one of the easternmost stations on the Trans-Anatolian railway. The Eastern Express services Kars once a day to İstanbul. Between 1993 and 2011, there was no train service east of Kars due to the Turkish-Armenian border closure. But as of February 2011, a regional train operates twice daily from Kars to Akyaka, the last Turkish town before the border, stopping at the Akyaka railway station.

The station was opened in 1899, by the Transcaucasus Railway, when Kars was under the rule of the Russian Empire in order to have better control over the Ottoman front. The tracks were originally standard Russian 5-foot gauge. After the Turkish War of Independence, Kars was given back to Turkey. The Turkish State Railways took over the station, but Kars remained isolated from the rest of the network until 1939, when a standard gauge line was built to Erzurum. Passengers would change to a narrow gauge train from Erzurum to Kars. The Narrow gauge line was replaced with standard gauge in 1957 and the broad gauge line was replaced in 1962.

Service

Previous Turkish State Railways Next
Selim
Toward Ankara
Eastern Express
Terminus
Terminus
Kars-Akyaka Regional
Mezraa
Toward Akyaka
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