Tatvan Pier railway station (Turkish: Tatvan İskele istasyonu) is a railway station and pier in Tatvan, Turkey. Situated on the western shore of Lake Van, the station serves as a connection between modes of transport, with two slips carrying a total of seven tracks. TCDD Taşımacılık operates a ferry between Tatvan and Van, which carries passengers freight railcars and vehicles across the lake. Up until July 2015, the Trans-Asia Express, from Ankara, stopped at the station. Passengers would travel to Van via ferry, where the eastern half of the train would continue to Tehran, Iran.[1] As of mid-2015, freight trains are the only rail traffic at the station.[2]
TATVAN İSKELE | ||||||||||||||||
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| TCDD ferry pier | ||||||||||||||||
| General information | ||||||||||||||||
| Location | Tatvan İskelesi, Şirinevler Mah., 13200 Tatvan/Bitlis Turkey | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 38.5135°N 42.2972°E / 38.5135; 42.2972 | |||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Turkish State Railways | |||||||||||||||
| Operated by | TCDD Taşımacılık | |||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Lake Van Ferry | |||||||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 island platform | |||||||||||||||
| Tracks | 7 | |||||||||||||||
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| Structure type | At-grade | |||||||||||||||
| History | ||||||||||||||||
| Opened | 24 October 1964 | |||||||||||||||
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