Marşandiz Yard

Last updated April 23, 2019

Marşandiz Yard (Turkish : Marşandiz deposu), also known as the Ankara Railway Factory (Turkish : Ankara Demiryolu Fabrikası), is a large mixed-use rail yard and maintenance facility in Ankara, Turkey. The sprawling complex consists of two rail yards, one for freight and one for passenger trains, a large maintenance facility consisting of locomotive and railcar maintenance and repair shops, freight warehouses and also houses the TCDD District 2 General Headquarters, along with other administrative facilities. The yard is the largest rail complex in Turkey, covering about 104 hectares (260 acres). Located in the industrial Bahçekapı neighborhood in Etimesgut, it is situated along the Istanbul-Ankara railway; Marşandiz station is served by Başkentray commuter trains.

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Ankara, historically known as Ancyra and Angora, is the capital of Turkey. With a population of 4,587,558 in the urban center (2014) and 5,150,072 in its province (2015), it is Turkey's second largest city after Istanbul, having outranked İzmir in the 20th century.

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Facilities

The complex houses several administrative and social facilities of the Turkish State Railways as well as the central Anatolia regional headquarters of the Turkish Customs and Trade Ministry. The administrations that are housed in the complex are the following:

Ministry of Customs and Trade (Turkey) ministry in Turkey

The Ministry of Customs and Trade is a government ministry office of the Republic of Turkey, responsible for customs and trade related affairs in Turkey. The ministry is headed by Nurettin Canikli.

TCDD District 2 General Headquarters (Turkish : TCDD 2. Bölge Genel Müdürlüğü)
Ankara Railway Factory Administration (Turkish : Ankara Demiryolu Fabrikası Genel Müdürlüğü)
- Ankara Locomotive Maintenance Shops (Turkish : Ankara Loko Bakım Atölyesi)
TCDD Railway Research and Technology Center, DATEM (Turkish : TCDD Demiryolu Araştırma ve Teknoloji Merkezi)
Turkish Customs and Trade Ministry Regional Headquarters (Turkish : Orta Anadolu Gümrük ve Ticaret Bölge Müdürlüğü)
Ankara Demirspor Social Facilities (Turkish : Ankara Demirspor Sosyal Tesisleri)
- TCDD Ankara Demirspor Stadium

Ankara Demirspor association football club

Ankara Demirspor is a Turkish football club based in Ankara, Turkey. They compete in the TFF Second League. They were one of the Super League's founding members in 1959. By winning the former Turkish Football Championship in 1947, they became Turkish champions for the first and only time. They played 13 seasons in the Super League and relegated to the Second League in 1971 and never returned to the top division.

History

With the growth of Ankara in the 1930s and 1940s, space within the city center became more and more valuable. The construction of new government buildings also emphasized the need for more space. The Turkish State Railways (TCDD) owned a rail yard and train-shed next to Ankara station, which was centrally located in Ulus. With the need to expand their facilities, TCDD began constructing a large maintenance facility in Etimesgut. Marşandiz Yard opened in 1944 as the Ankara Railway Factory, thus decreasing the need for the train-sheds in Ulus.^[1]

Ulus is a quarter in Ankara, Turkey and is located at the center of the capital city. It was once the heart of old Ankara. The name means "nation" in Turkish.

Those sheds were demolished in the 1960s, as all railway maintenance was done at Marşandiz. In 1970, the railway from Sincan to Kayaş was expanded to two tracks in anticipation of electric commuter rail service between the two points. However, since passenger trains needed to travel 7 km (4.3 mi) to Ankara station for revenue service, the line between the two points became increasingly congested. So in 1977, the State Railways added a third track and in 1984 added a fourth, to relieve the congestion.^[1]

Sincan is a metropolitan district of Ankara Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey, a large town 27 km from the city of Ankara. According to 2010 census, the population of Sincan is 456,420 The district covers an area of 344 km² (133 sq mi), and the average elevation is 855 m (2,805 ft). Sincan has friendly relations with the municipality of Doboj Jug from Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Commuter rail, also called suburban rail, is a passenger rail transport service that primarily operates between a city centre and middle to outer suburbs beyond 15 km and commuter towns or other locations that draw large numbers of commuters—people who travel on a daily basis. Trains operate following a schedule at speeds varying from 50 to 225 km/h. Distance charges or zone pricing may be used.

In 2003, TCDD founded the Railway Research and Technology Center, headquartered in the Marşandiz complex.^[2] Starting in 2007, high-speed YHT train-sets were stored and maintained in the facility until 2016, when a new railway yard and maintenance facility opened near Sincan, exclusively for YHT trains.^[3] In 2015, a new stadium opened for the State Railway owned football team, Ankara Demirspor.

Gallery

The freight warehouses.
Trains at the Ankara Railway Factory.
A retired TCDD E52500 inside the locomotive shops.

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References

1 2 "Demiryollarının 161 Yılı". tcdd.gov.tr (in Turkish). Retrieved 1 November 2017.
↑ "TCDD Railway Research and Technology Center (DATEM)". railway-research.org. Retrieved 1 November 2017.
↑ "Ankara YHT Gar Kompleksi 2016'da tamamlanacak". rayhaber.com (in Turkish). 7 February 2015. Retrieved 31 October 2017.

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[TCDD-1] 1 2 "Demiryollarının 161 Yılı". tcdd.gov.tr (in Turkish). Retrieved 1 November 2017.

[2] "TCDD Railway Research and Technology Center (DATEM)". railway-research.org. Retrieved 1 November 2017.

[rayhaber-3] "Ankara YHT Gar Kompleksi 2016'da tamamlanacak". rayhaber.com (in Turkish). 7 February 2015. Retrieved 31 October 2017.