Alpullu railway station

Alpullu station is a station in Alpullu, Turkey.

Alpullu
Alpullu station house in 2016.
General information
Location	D.555 3, Alpullu 39570 Babaeski/Kırklareli Turkey
Coordinates	41.366337°N 27.142845°E / 41.366337; 27.142845
System	TCDD intercity and regional rail station
Owned by	Turkish State Railways
Operated by	TCDD Taşımacılık
Line	Bosphorus Express   Istanbul–Sofia Express   Istanbul–Kapıkule
Platforms	2 (1 side platform, 1 island platform)
Tracks	3
Construction
Structure type	At-grade
Parking	Located in front of station building.
History
Opened	1926[1]
Services
Preceding station TCDD Taşımacılık Following station Edirne towards Bucharest Bosphorus Express Çerkezköy towards Istanbul Edirne towards Sofia Istanbul–Sofia Express Pehlivanköy towards Kapıkule Istanbul–Kapıkule Lüleburgaz towards Istanbul Pehlivanköy towards Uzunköprü Istanbul–Uzunköprü
Former services Preceding station Turkish State Railways Following station Pehlivanköy towards Belgrade Balkan Express Çerkezköy towards Istanbul Pehlivanköy towards Thessaloniki Friendship Express Halkalı towards Istanbul
Location

History

The station was opened in 1926, by the Oriental Railway.

Services

TCDD Taşımacılık operates two daily trains, both from Istanbul, that stop at Alpullu, one international intercity train, to Bucharest or Sofia, and one regional train to Kapıkule.

Between 1991 and March 2013 the Balkan Express, (an international overnight InterCity sleeper train jointly operated by the Turkish State Railways (TCDD), Bulgarian State Railways (BDŽ), Serbian Railways (ŽS) and Hungarian State Railways (MÁV) linking Istanbul's Sirkeci station, Turkey and Budapest Keleti station, via Sofia, Bulgaria and Belgrade, Serbia, made scheduled stops at Alpullu.

Between July 2005 and February 2011 the Balkan Express, (an international InterCity train jointly operated by the Turkish State Railways (TCDD) and TrainOSE linking Istanbul's Sirkeci station, Turkey and Thessaloniki, Greece) made scheduled stops at Alpullu.