Haydarpaşa was chosen as the northern terminus for the Baghdad Railway and the Hejaz Railway in 1904 and so the new station building was built between 1906 and 1909 in a style of German Neoclassical. The famous Taurus Express from Haydarpaşa to Baghdad, a distance of 2566 km entered service in 1940. This was a ferry terminal for the station BTW, that used to be still in operation in XXI century (previous | next | back to album | 2022:09:11 13:44:49 | 42% of an album)