TURKEY: Minister of Environment & Urban Planning Mehmet Özhaseki announced on January 10 that a dedicated suburban service would launch in Kayseri this year.
Services on the 156 km route would use existing TCDD tracks between Yeşilhisar in the southwest and Sarıoğlan in the northeast, running through Kayseri’s main station.
Services on the Yeşilhisar – Kayseri section are due to begin in April, with the Kayseri – Sarıoğlan section following by the end of the year.
TURKEY: Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım opened a 17 km extension of Izmir’s Southern Line from Tepeköy to Selçuk on September 8. The extension cost TL300m, of which 70% was covered by the national budget, and makes use of a railway alignment originally opened in the 1860s. There is one ...
TURKEY: Kayseri Mayor Mustafa Çelik and Bozankaya CEO Murat Bozankaya boarded a Bozankaya tram in Kayseri on October 2 for the start of passenger-carrying tests. Bozankaya delivered the first of 30 trams to Kayseri Metropolitan Municipality on March 23. This forms part of a €42m order placed in August ...
