TCDD Malikoy Train Station Museum

Murat Özsoy 1958 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Murat Özsoy 1958 · CC BY-SA 4.0

Murat Özsoy 1958 · CC BY-SA 4.0

TCDD Malıköy Train Station Museum is a museum located in the district of Polatlı, Ankara. Malıköy, a settlement attached to Polatlı and also a train station, became the most important base after the main command center during the period of the Battle of Sakarya and was used as the Turkish army's logistics center, repair depot, ammunition warehouse, and airfield for various purposes. For this reason, Malıköy Station is among the places that played a role in the Turkish people's struggle for independence. The decision to establish the museum was made in 2007; it was opened on 1 June 2008 with the joint contributions of the Ministry of Transport, Turkish State Railways, and the General Staff Headquarters.

The museum exhibits a German-made locomotive dated 1897 repaired by TCDD, a wagon produced by the Germans in 1909, and two aircraft reproduced faithfully. This section is toured accompanied by aircraft and train sounds so that visitors can feel the atmosphere of that era. In addition, the museum garden contains a monument dedicated to the 5,713 martyrs and a statue of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk. Moreover, statues and visual materials narrating the War of Independence and railway equipment from the Independence War period are present in the museum.

The museum had about 7,000 visitors in the first five months of 2017.

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Type
railway museum
Located in
Central Anatolia Region

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The text on this page is translated from: TCDD Malıköy Tren İstasyonu Müzesi (tr.wikipedia.org), as of 20 January 2026

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