The Istanbul-Ankara High Speed Rail Line is a railway line for High Speed Rail between Haydarpasa Terminal

Haydarpasa Terminal

The Haydarpaşa Terminal or Haydarpaşa Station is a major intercity rail station and transportation hub in Kadıköy, İstanbul. It is the busiest rail terminal in Turkey and the Middle East and one of the busiest in Eastern Europe. The terminal also has connections to İETT bus and ferry service. The...

 in Istanbul

Istanbul

Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and...

 and Ankara Railway Station

Ankara Railway Station

The Ankara Central Station is the central railway station in Ankara. The station is the busiest train station in Turkey, seeing 181 trains daily. It is a major hub for inbound and outbound trains. The Ankara Subway has a station 1 block away. The station is at the end of the İstanbul-Ankara Rail...

 in Ankara

Ankara

Ankara is the capital of Turkey and the country's second largest city after Istanbul. The city has a mean elevation of , and as of 2010 the metropolitan area in the entire Ankara Province had a population of 4.4 million....

. The line is completed from Ankara to Eskişehir

Eskisehir

Eskişehir is a city in northwestern Turkey and the capital of the Eskişehir Province. According to the 2009 census, the population of the city is 631,905. The city is located on the banks of the Porsuk River, 792 m above sea level, where it overlooks the fertile Phrygian Valley. In the nearby...

, and under construction from Eskişehir to Istanbul.

History

The Istanbul-Ankara Main Line

Istanbul-Ankara Main Line

The İstanbul-Ankara Main Line is the busiest rail line in Turkey, in terms of railway and passenger traffic and is the primary route of the State Railways as it serves a large population between Turkey's two largest cities. The line is long and runs between Turkey's largest city İstanbul to...

 is Turkey's most important rail line. The line has heavy traffic but is only single track, and the speed does not go over 120 km/h (75 mph) for passenger trains. In 2003 TCDD

Turkish State Railways

The State Railways of the Turkish Republic or TCDD is the government owned, national railway carrier in the Republic of Turkey, headquartered in Ankara...

 started to build the high speed line between Eskişehir and Ankara. This part of the line was completed and opened to service in March 2009. The part from Esenkent to Sincan

Sincan

Sincan is a metropolitan district of Ankara Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey, a large suburban town 27 km from the city of Ankara...

 is still under construction though. After the completion of the Ankara-Eskişehir portion of the line TCDD started construction from Eskişehir to Istanbul. At Polatlı

Polatli

Polatlı is a city and a district in Ankara Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey, 80 km west of the Turkish capital Ankara, on the road to Eskişehir. According to 2010 census, population of the district is 117,473 of which 98,605 live in the city of Polatlı...

 the Polatlı-Konya High Speed Rail Line branch south towards Konya

Konya

Konya is a city in the Central Anatolia Region of Turkey. The metropolitan area in the entire Konya Province had a population of 1,036,027 as of 2010, making the city seventh most populous in Turkey.-Etymology:...

.