Web links about Turkish rail

Official Turkish sites

• Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Devlet Demiryollari (in Turkish and English)
• Türkiye Locomotiv Sanayii (Tülomsaş)
• Türkiye Vagon Sanayii (Tüvasaş)
• Türkiye Demiryolu Makinalari Sanayii (Tüdemsaş)
• Marmaray (in Turkish)
• Marmaray (in Turkish and English) (this site appears down?)
• Ulastirma Baganligi (Turkey Transportation Ministry)
• General Directorate of Railways Harbours and Airports Construction (DLH)
• Rayder Association of Rail Transport Systems

Private sites with specific Turkish Railways Interest

Highly recommended

• Ergin Tönük Homepage In Turkish but many of the photo a self explanatory. Ergin's site is quite complementary to this site, covering most aspect about TCDD.
• 1974.TrainsofTurkey Steam in the 1970's live again thanks to 500+ pictures from Robin Lush.
• Drehscheibe A German forum where Turkey is often discussed (in the section "Historische Bahn") with many pictures.
  The most interesting thread are listed here: Best of Drehscheibe.
• Railhoo An excellent German language page with 200+ pictures about Turkey
• European Railway Server Turkish page This page contains many more pictures from the regular contributors to this site. Most recommended to visit.
• Locopage.net The extensive photo collection of Phil Wormald with many high quality recent pictures of Turkey
• Phantasrail A very large collection of pictures, including about 100 pictures taken in Turkey in the 1980's with lots of steam action

Picture galleries

• Bulent Karaca website (In Turkish, many pictures from a TCDD insider) ** site seems empty & dead **
• Bulent Karaca mechanical signalling website (In Turkish, more pictures from a TCDD mechanical signalling insider) **
• Orhan Berent Kitapligi the current scene in Izmir area (in Turkish)
• Kentvedemiryolu.com in Turkish by a group trying to protect historical memory in Turkey
• The Restoration and Archiving Trust Somes of the pictures held by the trust are presented in this site.
• Lokbilder International
• Richie's Homepage (In Dutch, see his pictures from Turkey in the "Foto" section)
• Worldwide photo gallery by Paul Marshall
• Erkan Kiraz webshot page
• Demiryolu ve Dogan resimleri (a small page in Turkish with some nice pix taken in the East)
• Herzogmann Some photography in Turkey.
• Vereine Minden Museum Read Camlik museum visit report (In German)
• Worldwide trains and more (in German), See the page about Turkey
• Webshots album Brian Dunn's pictures taken in Turkey
• Trenkolik Another nice Turkish language site.
• Ein Fotoalbum von Karl Heinz Rohrwild Steam action pictures 1982 1984
• Demiryolu.tr.gg
• Steam Locomotives Worlwide, Alexandre Gillieron Gallery *** site currently due to the Fotopic bankruptcy 8/11 ***
• demiryolu ve revizör in Turkish with many pictures
• demiryolu.net A blog with news and pictures in Turkish
• Bengt Dahlberg photo album
• Dave's European Travels See the gallery about Turkey
• marsandiz.webs
• Le Lococomtive dit Turchia and Le Ferrovie di Turchia
• Turkey TCDD Izmir 1978 by Steen Larsen *** site currently due to the Fotopic bankruptcy 8/11 ***
• Turkey by Johannes J. Smit

Reference

• General Motors EMD Export (see the Turkish GMs)
• GE Export Page (see the Turkish GEs)
• International Steam Locomotives / Turkey
• Trainspotting Bükkes trainspotting in Europe. One of the best map collection online, see the Balkans in particular
• Enthusiast's Guide to Travelling the Railways of Europe (read about the obscure Turkish lines)
• Rinbad (on railway geography and infrastructure in Europe and around the world)
• Trains-worldexpresses.com Very comprehensive website. Of interest to us the section about Orient Express and Taurus Express
• Ottoman railways on Wikipedia

Museum

• Rami Koç Museum official website
• The South Tynedale Railway: home of one on the last Henschel "Bagdadbau" loco
• Darmsdadt Kranichstein Museum home of 44079
• Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway home of 45160
• The Stanier 8F Locomotive Society

Traveling to Turkey by rail

• Turkey travel planner by Tom Brosnahan. Be sure to check his tips about trains in Turkey in the Transport section. This site is highty recommended.
• The Man in seat Sixty One: how to reach Turkey and other places by rail.

Modeling and Train simulator

• Virtual tour of Derya Ferendeci's Model Train Layout
• Erim Güraydin HO Layout in Turkish and English. See also:tcddfotoarsiv.
• Modeling a static TCDD 56086
• Kamil's Train Site (in Turkish)
• Selcuk Railway station HO scale project by A. Usta

E-groups & Forum

In Turkish

Mail Group

• Trenyolu The most active Turkish railfan group (This group replaced Trenler now asleep)
• Turk Tren Maketleri an Turkish language group about modeling
• Demiryolu Dostluk
• RailFoto

Forum

• Modeltrenciler.com A very active Turkish language forum about modeling
• Marklinciyiz.biz Forum Also very active with a section for post in English.
• Demiyol Portali Another forum of Turkish railfans (appears dead?)

In English

• Turk-Rail an English language mail group discussing about rail in Turkey
• World Diesel Loco Turkish stock is often discussed.
• Balkrail-1 an active group about train in the Balkans.
• European Rail Gen the European mailing list. TCDD reports are often posted there.

Neighboring railways

Westward

• King's page about Greek trains
• Serbian railways

Eastward

• Irak Railways by Andrew Grantham
• Iranian railways
• Syrian railways (official site)
• Hedjaz railway by train to Nabatea
• www.syrische-eisenbahn.de by Samir Stephan Fteimi

Light rail and metro

• Urbanrail
• Subways.net
• City rail transit editor of a book a city rail transit atlas of Istanbul
• Tramturk and also Tramturk on Flickr A small site specific about Turkey (in Turkish and English).
• Durak 43 another small site about Turkey( in English)
• Funimag Istanbul Tünel on Funimag (in French)

Other sites of interest

• Railway technical web pages
• World Bank Railway database (see the railways statistics pages)
• The Garrat Locomotives (See the picture of the lonely Turkish Garrat)
• Alco World
• Locomotives International
• Tourret Publishing publisher of a definitive book about the Hedjaz railway

Rail Internet Directories

• Trainweb.com A very large US portal
• Railserve: the Internet railroad directory
• European Railway Server
• International Railway Links
• NMRA Directory of WWW rail sites
• Loco-Revue (in French) the most popular French magazine
• Le Repertoire Ferroviaire (in French)