İskenderun railway station
İSKENDERUN | |||||||||||
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 İskenderun railway station | |||||||||||
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| Location | Çay mahallesi, İskenderun | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 36°35′18″N 36°10′54″E / 36.58833°N 36.18167°E | ||||||||||
| Owned by | TCDD | ||||||||||
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| Platforms | 1 side platform | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 1 | ||||||||||
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| Parking | Yes | ||||||||||
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| Opened | 1913 | ||||||||||
| Electrified | 25 kV AC | ||||||||||
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İskenderun station (Turkish: İskenderun istasyonu) is the main railway station in the city of İskenderun, Turkey. The station is located at 36°35′18″N 36°10′54″E / 36.58833°N 36.18167°E. The bus station is to the south west and the harbor is to the north of the station. İskenderun is a port city in the Hatay Province and the station is the southern terminus of the Toprakkale-İskenderun branch line which connects the province to the main line between Adana and Gaziantep.[1] The line was opened to service in 1913 during the Ottoman Empire era.[2]
The station briefly appears in the movie Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
Trains
[edit]The majority of the trains using İskenderun station are freight trains. The main passenger train is between Mersin and İskenderun with 21 stops in between.[3] some of the important stops are; Dörtyol, Ceyhan, Adana and Tarsus.
