Sirkeci Terminal opens as the European terminus at Constantinople
The station built between 1888 and 1890 by August Jasmund for the Oriental Railway opens, initially named Müşir Ahmet Paşa Station. It becomes the arrival point of the through Orient Express and the image most people carry of the service's eastern end — although the first train of 1883 never saw it, and the first all-rail run of 1889 preceded it by more than a year.
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- Sirkeci Terminal, Istanbul · infrastructure · Türkiye
- Istanbul · city · Türkiye
- Chemins de fer Orientaux (Oriental Railway) · route · Ottoman Europe — Thrace, Macedonia, Bulgaria and Bosnia · not located
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Sirkeci Station: last stop of the famous Orient Express becomes a cultural hub
Supports Sirkeci Terminal's construction between 1888 and 1890 by August Jasmund, its opening on 3 November 1890 under the name Müşir Ahmet Paşa Station, and its present use as a railway museum and cultural venue. V55 verification basis: substance carried in an attributed search summary; the article was not fetched and no TCDD or Turkish heritage-register record was consulted.
Türkiye Today · Partly verified
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/sirkeci-station-last-stop-of-famous-orient-express-becomes-a-cultural-hub-3205479
Recorded on Sirkeci Terminal, Istanbul
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