Narrow-gauge railways in Turkey

There are currently no common-carrier narrow-gauge railways in Turkey.

Historical

• Samsun–Çarşamba Railway Line, 750 mm (2 ft 5 ¹⁄₂ in) gauge, 37 km of a planned 150 km line was actually built, from Samsun to Çarşamba and was closed in 1971.^[1]
• Chemin de Fer Moudania Brousse (Mudyana Bursa Railway) in Bursa, 42 km 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) gauge and closed in 1948.^[2]
• A 600 mm (1 ft 11 ⁵⁄₈ in) gauge railway for the construction of the standard-gauge Baghdad Railway.^[3]

Park railway

• Eskişehir Sazova park railway, 600 mm (1 ft 11 ⁵⁄₈ in) gauge, a line of 1200m was built at the campus of Osman Gazi Universitesi (OGÜ) in Eskişehir, later transferred to Savova park, where a circuit line was built.^[4]

Children's railways

Three 600 mm (1 ft 11 ⁵⁄₈ in) gauge children's railways were built in Turkey.^[5]

• Afyon children railway in Afyon
• Ankara Gençlik Park Railway, in Ankara
• Izmir International Fair Park Railway in Izmir

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