Yüksek Hızlı Tren (
YHT),
Türkiye'nin ilk hızlı trenidir. YHT'nin seferlerine başlaması ile birlikte Türkiye bu teknolojiyi kullanan ülkeler arasında Avrupa'da 6., dünyada 8. ülke olmuştur.
TCDD bu treninin adını belirlemek bir için anket yapmış ankette yüksek oy alan "Türk Yıldızı", "Turkuaz", "Kardelen", "Yüksek Hızlı Tren", "Çelik Kanat", "Yıldırım" gibi isimler arasından Yüksek Hızlı Tren adında karar kılındığı açıklamıştır.
Ankara ile
İstanbul arasında yapılması devam eden ve Ankara-Eskişehir etabının tamamlandığı hızlı tren hattıdır. 523 Km. uzuluğundaki hatta yolculuğun 3 saat sürmesi beklenmektedir.
Hatta çalışacak yüksek hızlı tren 250 Km/sa hızla hareket edecektir. Hızlı trenin İstanbul'a varış tarihi 29 Ekim
2013 olarak planlanmaktadır. Aynı gün Marmaray açılışının da yapılması planlanmaktadır.
Eskişehir üzerinden Istanbula gelecek hat için inşaat süratle devam etmekte olup, Gebze-Köseköy ve Köseköy-Arifiye arası tren trafiğine kapanmış ve ray söküm işlemi başlamıştır. Bundan dolayı
Haydarpaşa kalkışlı tüm şehirlerarası yolcu ve yük trenlerinin seferleri iptal olmuş sadece Haydarpaşa -
Gebze banliyö hattı çalışmaya devam etmektedir.
The
Turkish State Railways started building high-speed rail lines in
2003. The first section of the line, between Ankara and Eskişehir, was inaugurated on March 13, 2009. It is a part of the 533 km
Istanbul to Ankara high-speed rail line.
The construction of three separate high-speed lines from Ankara to Istanbul,
Konya and
Sivas, as well as taking an Ankara--Izmir line to the launch stage, form part of the
Turkish Ministry of Transport's strategic aims and targets
Turkey plans to construct a network of high-speed lines in the early part of the
21st century, targeting a 1500 km network of high-speed lines by 2013 and a
10000 km network by the year 2023.Prior to the introduction of the high-speed line, the population centres of Istanbul (12 million) and Ankara (5 million) were connected by a 576 km long railway line, of which only
110 km was double tracked. The whole line was electrified, but low radius turns and poor track quality made high-speed rail transport impossible. Prior to the upgrading of this line in
2006, the railway's market share of Istanbul to Ankara passenger transit was 10%, with a travel time of ~6.5 hours.In
1994, an initial plan to upgrade the existing line was launched, named the "Ankara--Istanbul Railway
Line Rehabilitation Project." Smoothing of curves to allow running at around
100 km/h, and some track doubling were planned. The design specifications were not expected to meet future needs and no progress was made until
1999, when funding was obtained for a line between Esenkent and Eskişehir, to be operated at
200 km/h. Subsequently, this developed into the high speed line project with the expected line speed raised to 250 km/h. Contracts for this line were signed in
2000.The development of the 1994 "railway rehabilitation project" forms the first section of the Ankara--Istanbul high-speed line, and is expected to reduce in half the travelling time between the two cities, with hopes to capture a far greater share (78%) of the passenger transportation market between the two cities.The
Marmaray project, which consists of a rail transport network around Istanbul and the world's deepest immersed tube railway tunnel under the
Bosphorus strait, is also under construction. The
Marmaray tunnel will connect the subway and railway lines on the
European and
Asian parts of Istanbul and Turkey, respectively.
- published: 29 Aug 2012
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