İZMİT | |
Type: | TCDD Taşımacılık high-speed and regional rail station |
Style: | TCDD |
Address: | Kozluk Mh., İstasyon Cd., 41200 İzmit/Kocaeli, Turkey |
Coordinates: | 40.7619°N 29.9172°W |
Structure: | At-grade |
Platform: | 3 |
Tracks: | 7 |
Parking: | Yes |
Opened: | 1 August 1873[1] |
Rebuilt: | 1976–77, 2012–14 |
Electrified: | 6 February 1977 |
Accessible: | Yes |
Code: | 1570 |
Owned: | TCDD |
Passengers: | 912,500 18% |
Pass Year: | 2009 |
Other Services Header: | Former services |
Other Services Collapsible: | yes |
Izmit station (Turkish: İzmit garı) is a railway station on the Istanbul-Ankara railway and is the main station in Izmit, Turkey. The station is located on the shore of the Izmit Bay next to the D100 and at the western end of Cumhuriyet avenue.
Izmit station was first opened on 1 August 1873 by the Ottoman government as part of the Constantinople-Izmit railway. The line was then sold to the Anatolian Railway (CFOA) in 1880, which continued to build the line east to Ankara. The Turkish State Railways took over the railway and the station in 1927.