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Intercepted (Turkish-found!) in sight of the Hasan Kalesi fortifications departing Pasinler is Skoda large Standard 2-10-0 56145 upon 21.00 Kars-Erzurum mixed train.
Harsh and austere conditions of Eastern Anatolia combine with a test of nerves avoiding the suspicious borderland security unfortunately often too obvious by our group of eight toting Pentax and Nikon.
Impression in mono with added red filter.
25th March 1986
Viel Geduld benötigten wir am 20.09.2025 bis gegen 16:00 Uhr dann endlich ein nach Westen fahrender Güterzug unsere Fotostelle passieren wollte. Waren wir doch an diesem Tag bereits gut 7 Stunden an der Strecke Malatya - Yolçati im Bereich des aufgestauten Firat unterwegs. Zu sehen ist eine TCDD DE24000 mit der Übergabe vom Zementwerk bei Kuşsarayı nach Malatya zwischen dem Haltepunkt "km 286+500" bei Duraği und Firat. Im Hintergrund ist die bewachte Eisenbahnbrücke über den Stausee zu erkennen (İsmetpaşa Demiryolu Köprüsü).
We needed a lot of patience on September 20, 2025, until around 4:00 PM when a first westbound freight train passed our photo spot. We had already spent about seven hours that day traveling along the Malatya-Yolçati line in the area of the dammed Firat reservoir. The photo shows a TCDD DE24000 locomotive with a freight train from the cement plant near Kuşsarayı to Malatya, between the "km 286+500" stop near Duraği and Firat. In the background, the guarded railway bridge over the reservoir (İsmetpaşa Demiryolu Köprüsü) can be seen.
On the Irmak to Zonguldak line in Turkey, 2-10-0 'Skyliner' no.56329 ambles along near Gümüşdüven with the Çankırı to Karabük roadside goods on 11 March 1984.
56329 was one of a class of 88 locos built for the TCDD from 1947-49 by Vulcan Iron Works, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
Siemens Velaro für die Türkische Staatsbahn (TCDD), am 24.09.2016 auf der Innotrans Messe in Berlin.
Station pilot 2-8-0 45042 captured in the yards at Zonguldak in the Black Sea region of Turkey. Built in 1933 by Nohab, one of 62 in the class in total.
TCDD 2-8-0 45001 heads the 0730hrs passenger from Sivas
to the Black sea port of Samsun, near Menteşe on Saturday 17 March 1984.
45001 was the first of a class of 62 built by Nohab in 1927 (wks no.1781) for the Turkish Railways, based on the Prussian G8.2 design.
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Een ‘skyliner’ van de Turkse spoorwegen staat met een zware kolentrein gereed voor vertrek in Çatalağzı op 30 juli 1977. De bijnaam ‘skyliner’ ontleenden de locomotieven aan de doorlopende dombekleding op de ketel en aan het feit dat ze in de Verenigde Staten waren gebouwd. Vulcan Iron Works in Pennsylvania (US) bouwde de loc in 1948.
A Turkish railway “skyliner” prepares to depart from Çatalağzı on 30 July 1977, with a heavy coal train. The locomotives earned the nickname “skyliner” due to the continuous dome cladding on the boiler and the fact that they were built in the United States. Vulcan Iron Works in Pennsylvania (US) built the locomotive in 1948.
Augenscheinlich ganz frisch aus der Revision kommend zeigte sich am 19.09.2025 die TCDD DE 33005. Sie war noch nahezu frei von jeglichen Spuren des Betriebsalltags. Sie bespannt zusammen mit ihrer Schwesterlok DE 33045 einen Ganzzug mit Spezialcontainern, vmtl. aus Diyarbakir, nördlich von Sarsap auf der Strecke Malatya - Çetinkaya.
TCDD DE 33005 looks like coming freshly from maintenance /overhaul on September 19, 2025. The loco was virtually still free of any dirt. Together with DE 33045, it hauled a block train with special containers, presumably from Diyarbakir, north of Sarsap on the Malatya-Çetinkaya line.
A short video on the footplate of TCDD 2-10-0 56140 - built by Ceskomoravska Kolben Danek (Prague) in 1949 - south of Sivas & my first attempt at firing a steam engine. My action wasn't so smooth but at least I was facing the right way! With such a large firehole and no obvious deflector plate it was easy for the novice to get the coal in... The video ends with a sequence from the coach window of 56140 departing from Sivas.
We were on a "Turkish Delight Steam Tour" starting in Istanbul & with our own train (baggage van, day coach & restaurant car) we did a large circuit of Turkey via Ankara, Sivas, Malatya, Alanya, Antalya & Konya ending in Izmir & pulled by a variety of steam engines.
The youngest of a family stands over boxes of unburnt coal at Uşak yards in Aegean Anatolia where BR52 locos including 56520 await changeover.
35mm / Ilford FP4.
16th March 1986
Reloaded cropped version with improved reproduction 7/2021
Duitse diesellocomotieven in Halkalı (Istanbul). Het diesellocomotievendepot Halkalı ligt in het westen van het Europese deel van Istanbul. Locomotief DH 11.015 is voor Turkije gebouwd door Krauss-Maffei in 1985. De blauwe tweedehandsjes zijn voormalige DB-locs van de serie 211 (V100) die in 1982 zijn overgenomen.
"Skyliner" T.C.D.D. class 56301 (Vulcan Iron Works) 2-10-0, with the overnight Ankara - Zonguldak express, at Hisaronu. April 1983
TCDD steam locomotive Nr. 56374 and Class MT 5300 diesel train at Karabük station (Turkey) in 1977
This photo is available upon request
Map showing the route of the proposed Haifa-Baghdad Railway that was never built
In the 1920s, Britain contemplated building a railway line (marked in blue) connecting the Mediterranean Sea with Iraq to strengthen the imperial rule, support the British-backed Iraqi government, and secure the oil pipeline already running from the Mosul oilfields to the refineries in Haifa Bay. The British were also aware that, with the development of air warfare, the Suez Canal could be easily attacked in a time of war, and alternative military routes across the Middle East to India were therefore required. Economic difficulties trumped political and military expediency, and with the outbreak of the Second World War, the dream of a trans-Middle East rail service was abandoned
Turkey - TCDD 2-10-0 'Kreigslok' 56511, built by Borsig in 1943, on shed at Balikesir shed on the evening of Tuesday 3 April 1984.
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Istanbul op 11 december 2006 arriveert TCDD 52 522 te Haydarpasa Gari toen het nog spoorverkeer kende. Er hangt een dikke grauwe mist over de zee engte die Europa en Azie van elkaar scheiden. Het station Haydarpasa is nu functieloos omdat het nieuwe Bosporus tunnel tracé op afstand passeert. De elektrische locomotieven waren geleased van de Željeznice Federacije Bosne i Hercegovine in Bosnia-Herzegovina totaal 22 stuks. De uit 1967 stammende locomotiven van 3860 Kw en 120 km rijdende machines zijn sedert 1998 in Turkije en voor gebruik bij de TCDD gemoderniseerd en hebben nu thyristoren in plaats van diodes. In 2011 is het lease contract beëindigd.
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TCDD 52 522 is arriving on a foggy 11 December 2006 at Haydarpasa Gari, Istanbul. The 22 electric locomotives were leased by TCDD from Željeznice Federacije Bosne i Hercegovine in Bosnia-Herzegovina, build in 1967 are 3860 Kw, 120 km top speed. The loco's were between 1998 and 2011 in Turkey. Now Haydarpasa Gari is empty and disused as the new tunnel line is surpassing it and ferry's no longer dock at the sea side of this once wonderful characteristic railway building.
Istanbul (Aziatische zijde.)
Turkije
11-12-2006