{"id":50791,"date":"2012-02-06T14:08:39","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T12:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=50791"},"modified":"2014-01-06T23:19:04","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T21:19:04","slug":"last-train-departs-from-historic-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2012\/02\/06\/last-train-departs-from-historic-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Last train departs from historic station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Istanbul\u2019s historical train station Haydarpa\u015fa sent a train eastward last night at 11:30, marking the last time a passenger train will leave the station for a long-distance journey.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_50793\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-50793\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-50793\" title=\"n_12756_4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/n_12756_4.jpg\" alt=\"The main building for Haydarpa\u015fa train station has been in use since 1909. AA photo \" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/n_12756_4.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/n_12756_4-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-50793\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The main building for Haydarpa\u015fa train station has been in use since 1909. AA photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The railway was partially halted due to the high-speed rail construction project between Ankara and Istanbul. During construction a 44-km part of the railway will be closed for the next two years between \u0130zmit in the western province of Kocaeli and Istanbul.<\/p>\n<p>When the high-speed train is completed, the last stop of the railway is expected to be S\u00f6\u011f\u00fctl\u00fc\u00e7e\u015fme. But suburban trains will keep on working between Haydarpa\u015fa and Gebze for another couple of months.<\/p>\n<p>Although the future of the Haydarpa\u015fa train station is unknown yet, daily Radikal reported the station and its nearby area will be turned into a major complex including hotels and cultural and financial centers.<\/p>\n<p>Approximately 5 million passengers, mostly university students, used the railway each year, according to Turkish State Railroads (TCDD) statistics.<\/p>\n<p>H\u00fcseyin Ko\u00e7, a university student, said he has been using the railway for years but now was concerned about the transportation changes since they will not be able to use the train anymore. Ko\u00e7 said he has been paying only 7 Turkish Liras but now will have to pay 20 liras instead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe train was cheap and comfortable. I am not in favor of privatization for such services,\u201d Ko\u00e7 said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Istanbul\u2019s historical train station Haydarpa\u015fa sent a train eastward last night at 11:30, marking the last time a passenger train will leave the station for a long-distance journey. The railway was partially halted due to the high-speed rail construction project between Ankara and Istanbul. During construction a 44-km part of the railway will be closed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":50793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[4582],"class_list":["post-50791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-turkey","tag-haydarpasa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}