Industrial Railways
Due to it's late industrialization, Turkey had few insdustrial railways and industrial commodities and finished product were road hauled from the start. The most proeminents are all gathered around the coal and steel industry near Zonguldak. There, a network of meter gauge lines develloped at the end of the 19th century to carry coal from the mines down to the Black sea shore. Then standard gauge lines were laid, mostly around the mid 20th century when the steel industry was develloped in the area.
This document list privately owned railways (i.e. not TCDD) operated for industrial purpose. Military railways are not listed. Port and docks are not listed.
Ereğli Kömürleri lşletmesi (EKI)
EKI manage all the coal mines in the Ereğli - Zonguldak area. Consequently, it has several industrial lines at number of sites in the coal mining area. Some of these lines are no longer in operation. See in Railway Scene 4/1969 an article by Jeremy Wiseman about coal transportation on these lines.
Name | Openning | Closing | Aprox. length | Gauge | Description / Purpose / Rolling stock |
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Çatalağzı Colliery | Standard | ||||
Çatalağzı Colliery NG | about 1977 | 1000mmm | |||
Dolumu Colliery | 600 mm? | ||||
Közlü Colliery | 600 mm | ||||
Üzülmez Coke Ovens | 1976 | 600 mm | |||
Üzülmez Colliery | 600 mm | ||||
Üzülmez Primary School | 1965 | 1965 | 600 mm | Circular track laid. Loco worked for only four days in 1965. Track later removed | |
Zonguldak Docks | Standard |
Türkiye Demir ve Çelik Işletmeleri
Turkey National steel mills
Name | Openning | Closing | Aprox. length | Gauge | Description / Purpose / Rolling stock |
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Ülkü Steelworks | standard | Karabük | |||
Ereğli Demir ve Celik Fabrikaları (Steelworks) | 1953 | ||||
Iskenderun steelworks | Still active |
Türkiye Şeker Fabrikaları (Sugar plants)
Turkey has a very large sugar beets productions, in many area of the country and consequently has a sugar several factories. However, the sugars beets are transported by road and these factories never had the extensive narrow gauge network often associated with this industry. At most, a small internal network and a spur to the main line can be found at theses sites.
Name | Openning | Closing | Aprox. length | Gauge | Description / Purpose / Rolling stock |
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Adapazarı Sugar Factory | |||||
AIpullu Sugar Factory | |||||
Amasya Sugar Factory | Suluova | ||||
Ankara Sugar Factory | Sincan | ||||
Burdur Sugar Factory | |||||
Elazığ Sugar Factory | |||||
Erzincan Sugar Factory | |||||
Erzurum Sugar Factory | |||||
Eskişehir Sugar Factory | Kaplica | ||||
Kayseri Sugar Factory | Keykubat | ||||
Konya Sugar Factory | |||||
Kütahya Sugar Factory | |||||
Malatya Sugar Factory | |||||
Susurluk Sugar Factory | |||||
Turhal Sugar Factory | Turhal; Ct Stephenson & Hawthorn n°7310 Newcastle | ||||
Uşak Sugar Factory |
Other industrial
Name | Openning | Closing | Aprox. length | Gauge | Location | Description / Purpose / Rolling stock |
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Ankara Gas Factory | Standard | Ankara | ||||
Amasya Özel İdaresi, Çeltek Kömür Madeni | 28km? | 600 mm? | Suluova | Colliery | ||
Barsan Global Logistics | 5km | Standard | Çerkezköy | Warehouse and distribution platform | ||
Kütahya Brickwork | 600 mm | Kütahya | brick factory, near the sugar factory | |||
lzmit Docks | standard | İzmit | ||||
Makina ve Kimya Endüstrisi | standard | Kırıkkale | munitions factory | |||
Sivas Cimento Sanayii | Yapi | cement works | ||||
T.C. Orman Bakanlığı | 600 mm | Ayancık | Timber Yard. Engines are used only around the timber yard. The lines into the forest were abandoned in 1963. | |||
TCDD Derince | 600 mm | Derince | Sleeper factory | |||
Turkiye Petrolleri | Standard | Batman | Oil | |||
Bayla Mancilik Railway | 1899 | 1945 | 600mm | Bayla | Bayla mines |