This is a list of railway lines made within the borders of present-day Turkey since 1860.Erika Preissig, Günther Klebes: Demiryollarıbau und Demiryollarıprojekte im Orient und die damit verfolgten wirtschaftlichen und politischen Ziele. in: Jahrbuch für Demiryollarıgeschichte.mwi: Schneller von Ankara nach Istanbul.

Railway lines Line Linear (km) Opening Date Company NoteOttoman 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

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