Dalaman, Mugla, Turkey – March 15, 2022. Train station building in Dalaman town of Mugla province in Turkey. Although the nearest railroad track is ab
Dalaman, Mugla, Turkey – March 15, 2022. Train station building in Dalaman town of Mugla province in Turkey. Although the nearest railroad track is about 200 km away, the station was built in Dalaman by confusion in 1906. The building now serves as the offices of the General Directorate of Agricultural Enterprises. The story behind the station building is that the year before the construction (in 1905) the then Khedive of Egypt Abbas Hilmi Pasha had acquired a large part of the fertile plain and had decided to build a hunting lodge. He had ordered the plans and the material for the lodge to his architects in France, at the same as the plans and the material for a train station for Alexandria in Egypt. Unfortunately, the two simultaneous shipments were misdirected, the materials for the hunting lodge shipped to Egypt, and the Alexandria train station ending up in Dalaman. The mistake was only discovered at a much later stage, when both buildings had already been built.
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