Gebze railway station

GEBZE
TCDD Taşımacılık high-speed and regional rail station
Gebze station before it was rebuilt.
Location	Between Plevne and Etem Paşa Avenues Gebze, Kocaeli
Coordinates	Coordinates: 40°47′02″N 29°24′39″E / 40.78389°N 29.41083°E / 40.78389; 29.41083
Owned by	Turkish State Railways
Line(s)	Yüksek Hızlı Tren Ada Express
Platforms	2 island platforms, 1 side platform
Tracks	5
Construction
History
Opened	1 January 1873 (1873-01-01)
Rebuilt	2013-14
Services
Preceding station   TCDD Taşımacılık   Following station Pendik toward Istanbul Halkalı Yüksek Hızlı Tren İzmit toward Ankara İzmit toward Karaman Ankara Express İzmit toward Ankara Pendik Terminus Ada Express Hereke toward Adapazarı Darıca toward Halkalı Marmaray Terminus
Former services Preceding station   Turkish State Railways   Following station Pendik toward Arifiye Boğaziçi Express Hereke toward Ankara Tuzla toward Istanbul Adapazarı Express Diliskelesi toward Adapazarı Osmangazi toward Haydarpaşa Haydarpaşa suburban Terminus

Gebze station (Turkish: Gebze garı) is a station on the Istanbul-Ankara railway in Gebze, Turkey. It is located between Plevne and Etem Paşa Avenues just southwest of Gebze's city center. It was the eastern terminus of the Haydarpaşa suburban commuter service until 2013 and in 2019 became the eastern terminus of the new Marmaray commuter rail line.

Gebze was opened in 1873 as part of the Constantinople-Izmit railway, built by the Ottoman government.^[1] The Anatolian Railway (CFOA) took over the line in 1880 and continued to build further east from Izmit. The CFOA was nationalized in 1924 via the Anatolian-Baghdad Railway which was absorbed by the Turkish State Railways (TCDD) in 1927.^[2] On 29 May 1969 commuter service to and from Haydarpaşa Terminal was inaugurated and the line was electrified up to Gebze.^[3] Gebze became one of the most used stations in Turkey during this period as many commuters used the line to get to Istanbul. Commuter service was ended in June 2013 in order to rebuild the station for the new Marmaray commuter rail line as well as the new Istanbul-Ankara high-speed railway. The station reopened on 29 October 2014 with YHT High-speed service to Ankara and Konya via Izmit and Eskişehir from Pendik. Marmaray service to Halkalı entered service on March 12th, 2019.

The 1969 station had two island platforms and four tracks. The rebuilt station has two island platforms and one side platforms with five tracks.

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