Time was about up in 1989 for the lives of steam locomotives on coal hauls at Eregli, a Black Sea town of at the end of a minerals railway isolated from the rest of the TCDD system.

A ship arrived one day to collect the redundant engines.

On an earlier much happier day Eregli Engineman Ahmet is at leisure with a customary 'Chai'.

Home processed / 35mm FP4.

15th May 1989

BB 4003 in Istanbul Sırkecı

BB 4003 em Istanbul Sırkecı

84-08-15

The driver of DE24 198, on the 07.35 from Sivas, has annoyingly pulled right to the end of the platform on arrival at Samsun. The resulting view was not what I was hoping for, mainly due to using a mini tripod!

TCDD 56140 waiting as it is next to the Sivas Locomotive depot

Photograph by Zahit İncekaş

Izmir allocated DE24 255 is seen here waiting to depart from Alsancak on the 15.08 to Usak.

Isparta Turkey - 1/4/1985

from 2nd IRS International Railway Symposium

After traversing the balloon loop around the station, DE24 317 has arrived on the 15.00 Eskişehir - Kütahya. The loco and stock will soon push back out of the station, before shunting into the sidings, where it will wait until working the 17.55 back to Eskişehir.

TCDD DE 33 029 at Kapikule on the PTG "Great Bulgarian (& Greece) Track Bash 4". This took over from a BDZ class 07 which had gone by the time the passport check had been completed and we were allowed to take photographs. Experts report that passenger workings of DE 33s in European Turkey are extremely rare.

The 'Red Cap' at Adana station is about to give the driver of DE24 305 the 'right away' on the 17.50 Mersin-Iskenderun.

Electrification arriving soon.

Old Unused Passenger Wagons Waiting for Movement to Iran

E68-003 stands at Bandirma after working the 0855 from Izmir Basmane.

World Steam special arrives in the dark at the end of the Mardin branch, TCDD. The special by this time was down to a single locomotive, 45004, with tour participants hanging on wherever possible. A second loco., and coaches, had been abandoned back down the line.

May 1988.

Airbus A321-211 Thomas Cook s/n 6038

Flight TCX1249 PMI/BHX

Eurospot / PMI 2018

Representation Ceremony of the 86th Anniversary of the Arrival of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the Founder of the Republic of Turkey, to Malatya. ( Nostalgia Wagon Opening )

Representation Ceremony of the 86th Anniversary of the Arrival of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the Founder of the Republic of Turkey, to Malatya.

Firat Express, which makes a mutual voyage between Elazig and Adana

Airbus A321-211

Returned to Air Lease Corporation as OE-IQV and stored at Shannon (EINN) since 10/19.

Now registered as G-HLYA to begin services with Jet2.

TCDD DE 33 029 at Muratli on the PTG "Great Bulgarian (& Greece) Track Bash 4".

OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

DE24 382 has arrived at Izmir Alsancak on the 05.30 from Alasehir.

Airbus A321-211

Manufacturer Serial Number (MSN): 6038

new to Thomas Cook Airlines as G-TCDD delivered in Mar 2014

previous with:

Thomas Cook Airlines as G-TCDD from Mar 2014 and withdrawn from service in Sep 2019 after the company went into liquidation on 23rd Sep 2019

Air Lease Corporation (ALC) as G-TCDD from Oct 2019 to Jun 2020

Air Lease Corporation (ALC) as OE-IOV re-registered from Jun 2020 to Nov 2021

Jet2 as G-HLYA from Nov 2021 and now flying currently

Viewing Park, Manchester Airport (MAN / EGCC)

The Fırat Railway Bridge, built on the Karakaya dam lake, is Turkey's longest railway bridge. The 2030 m long bridge is 60 m high and was built on 30 reinforced concrete pillars, with 29 steel beams each weighing 366 tons and 65 m long.

Güney Express waiting for the departure time towards Malatya at Diyarbakır Station