This will be documenting updates to my Ottoman Navigation project, with an initial focus on better mapping of the Ottoman railway and transit networks.
A work-in-progress application may be found at https://www.jaxartes.net/ottoman-routing/ while the older application is at https://www.jaxartes.net/ottoman-route-finder/.
To do#
- Named lines, e.g. İzmir-Aydın Demiryolu
- penalty for switching lines
- Maritime routes
- Şirket-i Hayriye and other ferries
- Tigris and Euphrates steamers
- Anatolian river steamers (Sakarya and Kızılırmak rivers)
- Baghdad tramway
- Beirut tramway
- Damascus tramway
- Istanbul tramway
- Izmir tramway
- Najaf-Kufa tramway
- Salonica tramway
- Tramway Libanais
- Tripoli tramway
- Jezreel Valley railway
- Bosra railway
- Jaffa-Jerusalem railway
- Beirut-Damascus-Hauran railroad
- ORC railways
- JSC railways
- CFOA railways
- Izmir-Aydın railways
- Izmir-Kasaba railways
- Rumeli railways
- Bursa-Mudanya railway
- Hejaz railroad
- Adana-Mersin railway
- Baghdad railways
- Aleppo railways
- Clustered transit stops
- Line colours
- Configuratble switch/transfer times
- Stop/station open dates
- Bosnia, Bulgaria and Serbia railroads
Sources#
Selected list of sources:
- Trains of Turkey
- Bursa Seyahatim
- Steam over Macedonia
- The Taurus Express to Iraq and Egypt
- Beirut Train
- Land Transportation in Istanbul
- Osmanli Devleti’nde Demiryolu Ulaşımı
- İstanbul’da Kara Ulaşımı
- Actors of Change: Railway Projects and Urban Architecture of Balkan Cities in the Late Ottoman Period
- Infrastructures of the Self in Late Ottoman Iraq
- Great Britain Admiralty handbooks: Bulgaria, Macedonia, Turkey in Europe, Mesopotamia, Syria, Asia Minor (volume 1, volume 2, volume 3, part II), Northern Palestine and Southern Syria
- Greek Rail Tickets
- Levantine Heritage
- Les tramways belges dans l’Empire ottoman
- Ameli Elektrik
- NABATAEA.NET
- Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits timetable
Missing information#
- Aleppo tramway: one source claims it opened before 1914
- Baghdad tramway: station names
- Beirut tramway: station and Turkish line names
- Damascus tramway: station and line names
- Istanbul tramway: contradictory information on Haliç and Maçka lines
- Salonica tramway: station and line names; uncertainty around Şehir İstasyonu stop, third line running along Sadri Paşa Caddesi; lines post-electrification
- Tripoli tramway: station names
- JSC railways: opening of Dedeağaç line and stations; operation of Ferecik branch
- Bosra railway: number of stations in Bosra and their names