Akşehir railway station
railway station in Konya, central Turkey
Akşehir station (Turkish: Akşehir istasyonu) is the railway station in the city of Akşehir, Turkey. It is in use since 1894.
Akşehir is an ilçe (district) in Konya Province. The station is to the north of Akşehir at 38°22′07″N 31°26′36″E. Its elevation is 997 metres (3,271 ft) The railroad lies parallel to the Turkish state road D.300.
The station was built in 1894 as the terminal of Afyon-Akşehir railroad during the Ottoman Empire era. Initially it was put into service by Anatolische Eisenbahngesellschaft – Chemins de Fer Ottomans d'Anatolie. On 29 July 1896 when the railroad was expanded, it became a mid station on 427 kilometres (265 mi) long Konya-Eskişehir railroad. Later in 1927, during the Turkish Republic era, it was acquired by Turkish State Railways.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Akşehir railway station” as railway station in Konya, central Turkey. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
Why this record matters
The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as railway station in Konya, central Turkey. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q43398753. Authority coordinates are 38.370, 31.442. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1894, 1896 and 1927.
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This entry incorporates text from “Akşehir railway station” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.