Kapıkule railway station

KAPIKULE

The station building at night.
Location İstasyon Cd, Kapkule, Turkey
Owned by TCDD
Platforms 2
Tracks 3
History
Opened 1971
Electrified 1997

Kapıkule railway station (Turkish: Kapıkule garı), is the westernmost railway station in Turkey. It is located towards the north of Kapıkule, the frontier town on the Turkey/Bulgaria border. Kapıkule is a border station and the terminus for domestic trains in European Turkey. Only the Bosphorus Express to Bucharest and the Balkan Express to Belgrade continue across the border into Bulgaria. The station is the busiest of the 5 operational border stations of the Turkish State Railways in Turkey.

Kapıkule station was opened in 1971 as part of the Edirne cut-off to bypass the main line of the former Oriental Railways in the Ottoman Empire. The construction of this line, however, resulted in the abandonment of Edirne's historic Karaağaç railway station, which became first the Rectorate (1998–2011) and later the Faculty of Fine Arts building of Trakya University.

Service

Previous Service Next
Svilengrad
Towards Bucharest
Bosphorus Express
Edirne
Towards İstanbul
Svilengrad
Towards Belgrade
Balkans Express
Edirne
Towards İstanbul
Terminus
İstanbul-Kapıkule Regional
Edirne Şehir
Towards İstanbul
Terminus
Kapıkulle-Alpullu Regional
Edirne
Towards Alpullu

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