Ankara-Konya high-speed railway

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Ankara-Konya high-speed railway
An HT65000 EMU set in Konya
Overview
Type	High-speed rail
System	Turkish State Railways
Status	Operational
Locale	Central Anatolia
Termini	Ankara Konya
Stations	2
Operation
Opening	August 23, 2011
Owner	Turkish State Railways
Operator(s)	Turkish State Railways
Depot(s)	Güvercinlik Yard
Rolling stock	HT65000
Technical
Line length	306 km (190.14 mi)^[1]
No. of tracks	Double track
Track gauge	1,435 mm
Minimum radius	3,500 m
Electrification	25 kV, 50 Hz AC Overhead line^[1]
Operating speed	250 km/h (160 mph)^[1]
Maximum incline	16 ‰

The planned Turkish High Speed Rail Network.

The Ankara-Konya high-speed railway is a high-speed rail line between Ankara and Konya. Yüksek Hızlı Tren (YHT) started commercial operations on 23 August 2011.^[2] Built at a cost of about TL1 billion, the line is the second high-speed rail line in Turkey, after the Ankara-Istanbul high-speed railway.^[3] The line shares the same route with the İstanbul-Ankara high-speed railway from Ankara to Polatlı, from where it branches south at the large Polatlı high-speed rail junction. From Polatlı the line continues south through the plains of middle Anatolia and connects to the Eskişehir-Afyon-Konya railway at Sarıcalar, just north of Konya and continues to south to the city.

Construction started on 8 July 2006 and was finished in mid-2011. Test runs started on 3 June 2011 and the commercial runs started on 23 August. It was a turn-key project and constructed by Yapı Merkezi.

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Konya Central Station

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Opening of Ankara - Konya fast line completes strategic link". Railway Gazette. 24 August 2011. Retrieved 2013-02-12.
↑ "Invensys commissions ERTMS solution on Turkish High Speed Line". European Railway Review. 7 September 2011. Archived from the original on 19 December 2011. Retrieved 20 December 2011.
↑ "High-Speed Rail Line Connecting Ankara-Konya Concluded". Turkish Weekly. 17 August 2011. Archived from the original on 19 December 2011. Retrieved 20 December 2011.

High-speed railway lines

Africa

Asia

China	Qinhuangdao–Shenyang Hefei–Nanjing Beijing-Tianjin Qingdao–Jinan Shijiazhuang–Taiyuan Hefei–Wuhan Nanchang-Jiujiang Ningbo–Taizhou–Wenzhou Wenzhou–Fuzhou Wuhan–Guangzhou Zhengzhou–Xi'an Fuzhou–Xiamen Chengdu-Dujiangyan Shanghai–Nanjing Shanghai–Hangzhou Changchun-Jilin Hainan Eastern Ring Guangzhou-Zhuhai Beijing–Shanghai Guangzhou-Shenzhen Shijiazhuang-Wuhan Hefei-Bengbu Harbin-Dalian Beijing-Shijiazhuang Nanjing-Hangzhou Hangzhou-Ningbo Panjin-Yingkou Tianjin–Qinhuangdao Xiamen–Shenzhen Xi'an–Baoji Nanning–Liuzhou Wuhan–Xianyang Nanning–Qinzhou

Japan	Tōkaidō Shinkansen Sanyō Shinkansen Tōhoku Shinkansen Jōetsu Shinkansen Nagano Shinkansen (Hokuriku Shinkansen) Kyushu Shinkansen

South Korea	Gyeongbu HSR

Taiwan	Taipei–Kaohsiung

Turkey	Ankara-Eskişehir Ankara–Konya

Europe

Belgium	HSL 1 HSL 2 HSL 3 HSL 4

France	LGV Sud-Est LGV Atlantique LGV Rhône-Alpes LGV Nord LGV Interconnexion Est LGV Méditerranée LGV Est Perpignan-Figueres LGV Rhin-Rhône

Germany	Cologne–Düren Cologne–Frankfurt Hanover–Würzburg Mannheim–Stuttgart Rastatt–Offenburg Wolfsburg–Berlin Nuremberg–Ingolstadt

Italy	Turin–Milan Milan–Bologna Bologna–Florence Florence–Rome Rome–Naples Naples–Salerno

Netherlands	HSL-Zuid

Norway	Gardermoen Line

Spain	Madrid–Barcelona Madrid–Seville Córdoba–Malaga Madrid–Valladolid Madrid–Toledo Figueres–Perpignan Madrid–Valencia Motilla–Albacete

United Kingdom	High Speed 1

North America

United States	New York City–Washington, D.C.

South America

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Ankara-Konya high-speed railway

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