Kapıkule railway station

Kapıkule
Kapıkule
TCDD Taşımacılık intercity and regional rail station
	The station building.
Location	Gar Gümrük Road, Kemal Mah. 22130; Edirne; Turkey
Coordinates	47°43′09″N 26°21′41″E / 47.719051°N 26.361516°ECoordinates: 47°43′09″N 26°21′41″E / 47.719051°N 26.361516°E
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
Electrified	25 kV 50 Hz AC OL (1997)
Services
Former services

Exit passport stamp issued at the station

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.

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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