Kapıkule railway station

Kapıkule
TCDD Taşımacılık intercity and regional rail station
The station building.
General information
Location	Gar Gümrük Road, Kemal Mah. 22130 Edirne Turkey
Coordinates	47.719051°N 26.361516°E / 47.719051; 26.361516
Owned by	Turkish State Railways
Operated by	TCDD Taşımacılık
Line(s)	Pehlivanköy-Svilengrad railway
Platforms	1 side platform, 1 island platform
Tracks	3
Construction
Structure type	At-grade
Parking	Yes
History
Opened	23 May 1971 (1971-05-23)
Electrified	25 kV 50 Hz AC OL (1997)
Services
Preceding station TCDD Taşımacılık Following station Svilengrad towards Sofia Istanbul–Sofia Express Edirne towards Istanbul Svilengrad towards Bucharest Bosphorus Express Terminus Istanbul–Kapıkule Edirne Şehir towards Istanbul Preceding station Optima Tours Following station Kalotina West towards Villach Hbf Optima Express (de) Edirne Terminus
Former services Preceding station Turkish State Railways Following station Svilengrad towards Belgrade Balkan Express Edirne towards Istanbul

Kapıkule station (Turkish: Kapıkule garı), is the westernmost railway station in Turkey. It is located towards the north of Kapıkule, the frontier town on the Turkey/Bulgaria border. Kapıkule is a border station and the terminus for domestic trains in European Turkey. Only the Bosphorus Express to Bucharest and the Balkan Express to Belgrade continue across the border into Bulgaria. The station is the busier of the 2 operational border stations of the Turkish State Railways in Turkey, the other one being Kapıköy on the border with Iran.

Exit passport stamp issued at the station

Kapıkule station was opened in 1971 as part of the Edirne cut-off to bypass the main line of the former Oriental Railways in the Ottoman Empire. The construction of this line, however, resulted in the abandonment of Edirne's historic Karaağaç railway station, which became first the Rectorate (1998–2011) and later the Faculty of Fine Arts building of Trakya University.

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