Samsun Sivas Railway Line Trial Drives Start Next Week

Trial Drives Begin on Samsun Sivas Railway; The biggest EU-Turkey joint project which is reported as 258 million euros in Samsun - Sivas (Bold) after a two-year delay in the railway will begin trial runs in the next week.

The founder of the Great Leader Mustafa Kemal Ataturk's Republic of Turkey on September 21, 1924, which first started hitting the digging work, the Samsun-Sivas, 378 kilometers (Thick) of the railway line was completed on September 30, 1931. After the two-year delay in Samsun-Sivas Railway, which was closed to transportation due to the renovation on September 29, 2015 and could not be opened despite 4 years, trial runs will begin next week.

WILL SHORT TIME?

It is also discussed whether the transportation will be shortened by opening the Samsun - Sivas railway line. The first explanations were that the train speed would increase from 50 kilometers per hour to 80 kilometers and the duration would decrease from 10 hours to 5 hours and 30 minutes. Experts who stated that the road, which passes through mountainous terrain such as Karadağ and Çamlıbel and has 37 tunnels on it, did not change the route seriously and only the infrastructure was improved and said, “The railway is not like a highway. Depending on the road holding ability of the vehicle on the highway, you can enter the bends more quickly than determined. It is risky, you may not be driven away, but there is no such thing in railways. God bless you with a speed of two kilometers or more. Therefore, increasing the speed of the trains does not mean that the time is shorter. ”

TRIAL DRIVE WILL START

29 September 2015 on the new line closed due to renewal work, rails changed on the new line 11 December 2017 date temporary, 11 December 2018 date of acceptance will be made after the two-year delay in the first week of December will be opened for trial driving. It is stated that the test drives will last between 6 months and 12 months and will be opened to freight and passenger transport after final acceptance.

Source: samsunhabertv