# List of railway lines in Turkey

This is a list of railway lines made within the borders of present-day Turkey since 1860.

## Railway lines

| Line | Linear (km) | Opening Date | Company | Note |
| Ottoman Empire period |||||
| İzmir - Sütlaç | 357 | 1860 | Ottoman Railway Company | İzmir–Eğirdir railway |
| İzmir Basmane – Manisa – Turgutlu | 93 | 1865 | French company | |
| İstanbul Sirkeci - Hadımköy | 51 | 1872 | Chemins de fer Orientaux | |
| İstanbul Haydarpaşa – Pendik | 26 | 1872 | Ottoman Railway Company | |
| Hadımköy – Sınır | 229 | 1873 | Chemins de fer Orientaux | |
| Karaağaç – Sınır | 7 | 1873 | Chemins de fer Orientaux | |
| Pendik – İzmit | 67 | 1873 | Ottoman Railway Company | |
| Turgutlu – Alaşehir | 76 | 1875 | French company | |
| Mersin – Yenice | 43 | 1882 | British company | |
| Torbalı – Tire | 48 | 1883 | British company | |
| Yenice – Adana | 24 | 1886 | British company | |
| Alaşehir – Uşak | 118 | 1887 | British company | |
| Çatal – Ödemiş | 26 | 1888 | British company | |
| Goncalı – Denizli | 9 | 1889 | British company | |
| Sütlaç – Çivril | 30 | 1889 | British company | |
| Dinar – Eğirdir | 94 | 1889 sonrası | British company | |
| Alaşehir – Afyon | 135 | 1890 | French company | |
| Manisa – Kırkağaç | 81 | 1890 | French company | |
| Ortaklar – Söke | 22 | 1890 | British company | |
| İzmit – Büyükderbent | 18 | 1890 | Anatolian Railway Company | |
| Büyükderbent – Vezirhan | 105 | 1891 | Anatolian Railway Company | |
| Vezirhan – Ankara | 362 | 1892 | Anatolian Railway Company | |
| Mudanya – Bursa | 42 | 1893 | | |
| Tiflis – Kars | 124 | | Russian company | Parts left over on Turkish soil |
| Eskişehir – Kütahya | 77 | 1894 | Anatolian Railway Company | |
| Alayunt – Akşehir | 192 | 1895 | Anatolian Railway Company | |
| Akşehir – Konya | 174 | 1896 | Anatolian Railway Company | |
| Arifiye – Adapazarı | 8,5 | 1899 | Anatolian Railway Company | |
| Konya – Bulgurlu | 199 | 1904 | Baghdad Railway | |
| Bulgurlu – Ulukışla | 39 | 1911 | Baghdad Railway | |
| Sütlaç – Eğirdir | 114 | 1912 | British company | |
| Ulukışla – Yenice | 108 | 1912 | Baghdad Railway | |
| Adana – Toprakkale – Mamure | 97 | 1912 | Baghdad Railway | |
| (Aleppo) – Al-Rai – Karkamış, önceki: Jarabulus | 188 | 1912 | Baghdad Railway | |
| Fevzipaşa – Meydan Ekbez – (Aleppo) | 35 | 1912 | Baghdad Railway | |
| Toprakkale – İskenderun | 59 | 1912 | Baghdad Railway | |
| Kırkağaç – Bandırma | 195 | 1912 | French company | |
| Mandıra – Kırklareli | 46 | 1912 | Chemins de fer Orientaux | |
| Toprakkale – İskenderun | 60 | 1913 | Baghdad Railway | |
| Jarabulus – Akçakale, önceki: Tel Abyad | 101 | 1914 | Baghdad Railway | |
| Akçakale – Sayalı, önceki: Tuem | 62 | 1915 | Baghdad Railway | |
| Sayalı – Ceylanpınar, önceki: Resulayn | 41 | 1915 | Baghdad Railway | |
| Kars – Erzurum | | Before 1917 | Russian military ground | Narrow gauge railway |
| Resulayn – Şenyurt, önceki: Derbesiye | 61 | 1917 | Baghdad Railway | |
| Mamure – Meydan Ekbez | 54 | 1917 | Baghdad Railway | Amanos Mountains |
| Hudut – Çobanköy – Nusaybin | 382 | 1917 | Baghdad Railway | |
| Derbesiye – Mardin | 24 | 1917 | Baghdad Railway | |
| Karapınar – Durak | 37 | 1918 | Baghdad Railway | Taurus Mountains |
| Alaşehir – Afyon | | Before 1918 | French company | |
| Soma – Bandırma | 185 | Before 1918 | French company | |
| Period of the Republic of Turkey |||||
| Ankara – Yerköy | 203 | 1925 | TCDD | First line built by TCDD |
| Samsun – Kavak | 48 | 1926 | TCDD | |
| Yerköy – Kayseri | 176 | 1927 | TCDD | |
| Kavak – Kayabaşı | 98 | 1927 | TCDD | |
| Kayabaşı – Zile | 69 | 1928 | TCDD | |
| Kütahya – Emirler | 64 | 1929 | TCDD | |
| Fevzipaşa – Gölbaşı | 138 | 1929 | TCDD | |
| Kayseri – İhsanlı | 111 | 1930 | TCDD | |
| Emirler – Balıköy | 36 | 1930 | TCDD | |
| Zile – Kunduz | 70 | 1930 | TCDD | |
| İhsanlı – Sivas | 112 | 1930 | TCDD | |
| Gölbaşı – Doğanşehir | 56 | 1930 | TCDD | |
| Doğanşehir – Malatya | 57 | 1931 | TCDD | |
| Malatya – Fırat | 33 | 1932 | TCDD | |
| Balıköy – Balıkesir | 153 | 1932 | TCDD | |
| Kunduz – Kalın | 93 | 1932 | TCDD | |
| Kardeşgediği – Bor | 45 | 1932 | TCDD | |
| Bor – Boğazköprü | 126 | 1933 | TCDD | |
| Fırat – Yolçatı – Elâzığ | 86 | 1934 | TCDD | |
| Çandır – Atkaracalar | 86 | 1934 | TCDD | |
| Yolçatı – Maden | 76 | 1935 | TCDD | |
| Narlı – Gaziantep | 84 | 1935 | TCDD | |
| Atkaracalar – Ortaköy | 56 | 1935 | TCDD | |
| Maden – Diyarbakır | 83 | 1935 | TCDD | |
| Sivas – Eskiköy | 63 | 1935 | TCDD | |
| Kayseri – Ulukışla | | 1935 | TCDD | |
| Adana – Şehir | 3 | 1936 | TCDD | |
| Ortaköy – Bolkuş | 60 | 1936 | TCDD | |
| Malatya – Yazıhan | 33 | 1936 | TCDD | |
| Bolkuş – Hisarönü | 86 | 1936 | TCDD | |
| Eskiköy – Çetinkaya | 48 | 1936 | TCDD | |
| Yazıhan – Hekimhan | 37 | 1936 | TCDD | |
| Hisarönü – Çatalağzı | 15 | 1936 | TCDD | |
| Bozanönü – Isparta | 13 | 1936 | TCDD | |
| Gümüşgün – Burdur | 24 | 1936 | TCDD | |
| Afyon – Karakuyu | 112 | 1936 | TCDD | |
| Çetinkaya – Divriği | 65 | 1937 | TCDD | |
| Hekimhan – Çetinkaya | 70 | 1937 | TCDD | |
| Çatalağzı – Zonguldak | 10 | 1937 | TCDD | |
| Divriği – Erzincan | 156 | 1938 | TCDD | |
| Erzincan – Erzurum | 215 | 1939 | TCDD | |
| Diyarbakır – Bismil | 47 | 1940 | TCDD | |
| Hadımköy – Kurukavak | 11 | 1941 | TCDD | |
| Bismil – Sinan | 28 | 1942 | TCDD | |
| Sinan – Batman | 15 | 1943 | TCDD | |
| Batman – Kurtalan | 69 | 1944 | TCDD | |
| Tavşanlı – Tunçbilek | 13 | 1944 | TCDD | |
| Malatya – Malatya Şehir | 3 | 1944 | TCDD | |
| Zonguldak – Kozlu | 4 | 1945 | TCDD | |
| Elâzığ – Palu | 70 | 1946 | TCDD | |
| Palu – Genç | 63 | 1947 | TCDD | |
| Köprüağzı – Maraş | 28 | 1948 | TCDD | |
| Erzurum – Horasan | 85 | 1949 | TCDD | |
| Uzunahmetler – Yekabat | 33 | 1949 | TCDD | |
| Horasan – Sarıkamış | 72 | 1951 | TCDD | |
| Yekabat – USSR border | 229 | 1951 | TCDD | |
| Kozlu – Ereğli – Armutçuk | 16 | 1953 | TCDD | |
| Genç – Muş | 108 | 1955 | TCDD | |
| Yenidoğan – Temelli | 1 | 1957 | TCDD | |
| Çardakbaşı – Beylikahır | 3 | 1957 | TCDD | |
| Esenkent – Sincan | 11 | 1957 - 1965 | TCDD | |
| Beylikahır – Yalınlı | 5 | 1957 | TCDD | |
| Gaziantep – Karkamış | 91 | 1960 | TCDD | |
| Sarıkamış – Kars | 60 | 1961 | TCDD | |
| Etimesgut – Behiçbey | 6 | 1961 | TCDD | |
| Kars – Kayaköprü (USSR border) | 64 | 1962 | TCDD | |
| Kütahya – Seyitömer | 27 | 1962 | TCDD | |
| Muş – Tatvan | 94 | 1964 | TCDD | |
| İğciler – Polatlı | 1 | 1965 | TCDD | |
| Gazi – Ankara | 0,5 | 1965 | TCDD | |
| Esenkent – Malıköy | 1 | 1966 | TCDD | Varyant |
| Karapınar – Yenidoğan | 12 | 1968 | TCDD | Varyant |
| Sapanca – Arifiye | 6 | 1970 | TCDD | Varyant |
| Pehlivanköy – Edirne – Kapıkule | 68 | 1971 | TCDD | |
| Van – Kapıköy (Iran border) | 117 | 1971 | TCDD | Tatvan – Van |
| Tahtaköprü | 21 | 1972 | TCDD | Varyant |
| Halkalı – Ispartakule | 9 | 1972 | TCDD | |
| Sazak – Biçer | 14 | 1972 | TCDD | Varyant |
| Keban | 47 | 1973 | TCDD | Varyant |
| Sazılar – Biçer | 13 | 1973 | TCDD | Varyant |
| Ispartakule – Ömer | 8 | 1973 | TCDD | Varyant |
| Yalınlı – Yunusemre | 12 | 1974 | TCDD | Varyant |
| Yunusemre – Sazak | 3 | 1974 | TCDD | Varyant |
| İlören – Sazılar Kurp Tashihi | 1 | 1974 | TCDD | Varyant |
| Biçer – İlören | 9 | 1974 | TCDD | Varyant |
| Kapıköy – Razi (Iran border) | | 1975 | TCDD | |
| Ömerli – Çatalca | 16 | 1980 | TCDD | Varyant |
| Sinekli – Çerkezköy | 10 | 1980 | TCDD | Varyant |
| Samsun – Çarşamba | 39 | 1980 | TCDD | |
| Keban | 10 | 1982 | TCDD | |
| Samsun – Gelemen | 13 | 1983 | TCDD | |
| Bozüyük – İnönü | 5 | 1985 | TCDD | |
| Kardeşgediği – Ulukışla | 3 | 1985 | TCDD | |
| Yazıhan – Dilek | 8 | 1986 | TCDD | |
| Eskimalatya – Bekir Hüseyin | 25 | 1986 | TCDD | |
| Meydan – Bozdağ | 5 | 1985 | TCDD | |
| Hanlı – Bostankaya | 44 | 1994 | TCDD | |
| Menemen – Aliağa | 26 | 1995 | TCDD | |
| Eskişehir – İnönü | 31 | 1996 | TCDD | |
| Esenkent – Eskişehir | 206 | 2009 | TCDD | High-speed railway line |
| Sincan– Esenkent | 15 | 2010 | TCDD | High-speed railway line |
| Tekirdağ – Muratlı | 31 | 2010 | TCDD | |
| Polatlı – Konya | 212 | 2011 | TCDD | High-speed railway line |
| Eskişehir – Köseköy | 188 | 2014 | TCDD | High-speed railway line. Some parts that are still under construction (~30km in total), are by-passed through renewed conventional lines. |
| Osmaneli – Bursa | | Under construction | TCDD | |
| Kayaş – Sivas | 394 | Under construction | TCDD | High-speed railway line |
| Polatlı – Afyon | | Under construction | TCDD | High-speed railway line |
| Afyon – Menemen | | Under construction | TCDD | High-speed railway line |