Alpullu | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Alpullu station house in 2016. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| General information | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | D.555 3, Alpullu 39570 Babaeski/Kırklareli Turkey | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 41°21′59″N27°08′34″E / 41.366337°N 27.142845°E | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| System | TCDD intercity and regional rail station | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Turkish State Railways | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Operated by | TCDD Taşımacılık | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Line | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 2 (1 side platform, 1 island platform) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 3 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Construction | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Structure type | At-grade | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parking | Located in front of station building. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| History | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Opened | 1926 [1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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The station was opened in 1926, by the Oriental Railway.
TCDD Taşımacılık operates two daily trains, both from Istanbul, that stop at Alpullu, one international intercity train, to Bucharest or Sofia, and one regional train to Kapıkule.
Between 1991 and March 2013 the Balkan Express , (an international overnight InterCity sleeper train jointly operated by the Turkish State Railways (TCDD), Bulgarian State Railways (BDŽ), Serbian Railways (ŽS) and Hungarian State Railways (MÁV) linking Istanbul's Sirkeci station, Turkey and Budapest Keleti station, via Sofia, Bulgaria and Belgrade, Serbia, made scheduled stops at Alpullu.
Between July 2005 and February 2011 the Balkan Express , (an international InterCity train jointly operated by the Turkish State Railways (TCDD) and TrainOSE linking Istanbul's Sirkeci station, Turkey and Thessaloniki, Greece) made scheduled stops at Alpullu.
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