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Chemin de Fer Moudania Brousse

Former Turkish railway

Field	Value
railroad_name	Chemin de Fer Moudania Brousse
system_map	Bursa-Mudanya Rail Map.GIF
map_caption	CFMB in Yellow, other railways in grey
marks	CFMB
locale	Mudanya to Bursa
start_year	1871
end_year	1948
successor_line	Bursaray
gauge
length	41 km
hq_city	Bursa

The chemin de fer Moudania Brousse, (, ), or CFMB was a 41 km long railway line from the port of Mudanya to Bursa.

History

On August 14, 1871, the Ottoman Government started to build a line from the port city of Mudanya to the inland city of Bursa. During construction, the line was sold to two French investors in 1874. The Ottoman empire used 185,000 lira to finance the project. The railway reached Bursa and was finished in 1875. The railway was to be continued to Bozüyük where it would connect with the CFOA line, but the tracks were never laid. On January 2, 1891 Georges Nagelmackers paid £27,000 for the rail line. In 1932 the Turkish State Railways (TCDD) bought the line. The railway was not very profitable, so in 1948, TCDD abandoned the line.

Bursaray

Main article: Bursaray

The Bursaray light rail system started operating in 2002 as an urban transit option. Although one of its lines follow approximately the same route, Bursaray does not go as far as Mudanya.

References

George Young; Corps de Droit Ottoman; Oxford Clarendo Press, 1906. See page 180
E.Talbot:, Steam in Turkey; Continental Railway Circle, 1981,
Özyüksel, Murat. (2014). "The Hejaz Railway and the Ottoman Empire: Modernity, Industrialisation and Ottoman Decline". I.B. Tauris.
[http://www.trainsofturkey.com/w/pmwiki.php/Urban/Bursa E.Talbot:, Steam in Turkey; Continental Railway Circle, 1981],
"Trains of Turkey | Main / HomePage".
"Bursaray Metro Route Map 2024, Metro Lines, Stations - YoMetro".

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