Ödemiş Railway Station
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The Ödemiş Railway Station is a railway station in Ödemiş
Ödemis
Ödemiş is a district of İzmir Province of Turkey. North of Ödemiş, which is 113 km southeast of İzmir, are the ruins of Hypaiapa...

, Turkey
Turkey
Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

. The station is served by the Turkish State Railways
Turkish State Railways
The State Railways of the Turkish Republic or TCDD is the government owned, national railway carrier in the Republic of Turkey, headquartered in Ankara...

 and is the southern terminus of the Basmane-Ödemiş Regional
Basmane-Ödemiş Regional
The Basmane-Ödemiş Regional is a regional rail service operated by the Turkish State Railways. The train operates from Basmane Terminal in İzmir to the town of Ödemiş.-History:...

 train service. 6 trains to İzmir
Izmir
Izmir is a large metropolis in the western extremity of Anatolia. The metropolitan area in the entire Izmir Province had a population of 3.35 million as of 2010, making the city third most populous in Turkey...

 serve the station on weekdays and 7 on weekends. The station was built in 1884 when the Oriental Railway Company
Oriental Railway Company
The Oriental Railway Company or the İzmir-Aydın Railway was the first railway in Anatolia. The railway operated from 1856 to 1935 when TCDD absorbed it.-History:...

(ORC) completed a branch line to Ödemiş. The line was to be extended into the Manisa plain, but never happened. In 1935 the Turkish State Railways took over the ORC and the station.
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