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Marmaray

Marmaray

Marmaray is a subway line system that starts from the European side of Turkey to the Anatolian side neighbor whose name is Kocaeli. The Project was constructed on suburban lines, which are already avaliable in Halkalı (European side) and Gebze (the border of Kocaeli), as a result of modernization studies of those lines. Marmaray passes through Marmara Sea below the water on these lines.

Construction started in 2004 and had expected to finish the process in 2009 if archeological and historical relics about footprint from 8,500 B.C, Theodosius Port that was one of the most famous port in its era and the tomb of kings and more were not found in the Project site. Due to these kind of cases, Marmara was able to complete in 12 March 2013.

It is consist of three different kinds of tube meaning as submerge tube, curved tube and switchable tube; three metro stations below the ground and 37 open metro stations during the journey, control center, maintainance facility and rail vehicles with 440 vagons. The subway line services more than 50 million people each year.

Working hours of Marmaray is;
  • For instracity passengers: 06.00 a.m – 10.00 p.m
  • For interurban passengers: It depends on departure time
  • For goods wagons: 12.00 a.m – 05.00 a.m

Also the prices written below is the current price of 2020;
Station Numbers For Passenger For Students
1-7 ₺3,50 ₺1,70
8-14 ₺4,50 ₺2,10
15-21 ₺5,20 ₺2,50
22-28 ₺6,00 ₺2,85
29-35 ₺7,00 ₺3,35
36-43 ₺7,75 ₺3,50

The price changes to how many stations you travel to. First you touch your card on turnstile, the highest price - which is 7,75 ₺ – is taken from your card and you take it some amount of it back in the station getting off. For instance, you pay 7,75 ₺ when you first get in the metro but you will take 3,75 ₺ back if you do not travel more than 7 stations.

There are 43 stations, which are five of them in Kocaeli and thirthy eight in Istanbul – found disable ramps - on the line of 76,6 kilometers.
These are the stations respectively from European side to Kocaeli;

Halkalı
Mustafa Kemal
Küçükçekmece
Florya (Bakırkoy)
Florya Akvaryum (Bakırkoy)
Yeşilköy (Bakırkoy)
Yeşilyurt
Ataköy (Bakırkoy)
Bakırköy
Yenimahalle (Bakırkoy)
Zeytinburnu
Kazlıçeşme
Yenikapı (Fatih)
Sirkeci (Fatih)
Üsküdar
Ayrılık Çeşmesi (Kadıkoy)
Söğütlüçeşme
Feneryolu
Göztepe
Erenköy
Suadiye
Bostancı
Küçükyalı
İdealtepe
Süreyya Plajı
Maltepe
Cevizli
Atalar
Başak
Kartal
Yunus
Pendik
Kaynarca
Tersane
Güzelyalı
Aydıntepe
İçmeler
Tuzla
Çayırova
Fatih
Osmangazi
Darıca
Gebze