Haydarpaşa Banliyo Station

Haydarpaşa Banliyo Station

Haydarpaşa Banliyo Station

Ottoman sultans of the transfer II. During the reign of Abdülhamid, its construction started on May 30, 1906 and it was put into service on 19 August 1908. According to a rumor, III. It was named after Haydar Pasha, one of Selim's pashas. The construction of the building was carried out by a German company called Anadolu Baghdad. In addition, a breakwater was built in front of the station with the initiative of a German, and facilities were built for the function of loading and unloading the commercial goods of the wagons coming from or going to Anatolia.

The project, prepared by two German architects Otto Ritter and Helmuth Cuno, came into effect and German masters and Italian stone masters worked together in the construction of the station. A large part of the building was damaged as a result of a sabotage fire in 1917 on the ammunition in the station warehouse during World War I. The reconstructed building took its present shape. In 1979, the lead stained glass of the building, made by a master named O Linneman, was damaged due to the explosion and heat that occurred as a result of the collision of a tanker named Independenta with a ship off Haydarpaşa. It was repaired extensively in 1976, and at the end of 1983 the restoration of four exterior facades and two towers were completed.

28 The roof collapsed due to heavy fire on 2010 4 and XNUMX. solid has become unusable.

As a result of the railway works in the Istanbul-Eskişehir section within the scope of the Ankara-Istanbul High Speed ​​Train Project, train services around the country were suspended for 1 months starting from February 2012, 24.

Roof clock

The clock on the roof of the station was completed with the building itself in 1908, unlike many similar roof and facade clocks in Anatolia. The clock on the baroque ornamented pediment consists of a circular dial. While the original movement of the watch is preserved, the Eastern Arabic numerals on the dial were replaced with the Arabic numerals with the Letter Revolution.

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