As of October 2024 (pain, sadness), the object is still under restoration, which does not negate its monumentality and beauty.
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May 31, 2023
The Haidarpasha Railway Station was built in 1906. It was started in the time of Abdulhamid and completed in 1908. The station, built by a German company, was built in. It is named after Haidar Pasha, one of Selim's pashas. The purpose of the construction was considered to be the starting point of the Istanbul Baghdad railway line. In the last period of the Ottoman Empire, the Hejaz railway service began. The State Railways of the Republic of Turkey are the main station. I advise everyone
Gaidar Pasha railway station is simply deafening in its scope, splendor and perfection of Istanbul railway station, especially since it was built at the very beginning of the XX century.
I especially liked the very convenient turntables at the ticket offices, which do not allow to interfere with the purchase of tickets.
The steam locomotive "TCDD Türkiye Cumhuriyeti Devlet Demiryolları" No. 23004 installed as a monument does not correspond at all to the scope of the station. It is from an earlier era of the 1890s, when the Turks successfully built railways to Ankara 449 versts and Konya 450 versts without the help of the Germans. In memory of the German scale of Kaiser Wilhelm II, it would be worth putting an appropriate steam locomotive. In 1906 it was the "Preußische S 6". However, the Germans failed the Baghdad road, so Gaidarpasha is facing a miracle from the 1890s. If the Turks had not succumbed to the persuasions of the Germans, then by the First World War they could have built a railway to Basra themselves, and not only to Aleppo.