August heat is all around. I am excitedly entering Basmane Train Station.. My friend is on his way, I have to buy the tickets before he comes. While worrying that there will be no tickets left, thank goodness there is room…
The ticket price of the 7 New Lira 25 Kuruş İzmir-Denizli train. While buses carry at least twice this price, I ask myself why the railways are not developed and developed…
There is no seat number on the tickets called Pulman.. We start looking for a place right away, with early boarding, scavengers.. We are waiting for the train to leave after we are seated in a place we find suitable for ourselves.. We’re sweating on the one hand…
I’m going to take a long train ride for the first time. I’m excited.
Children trying to ride with suitcases and sacks. there is noise all the time. the train is leaving. The sounds of the rails are in my head…
The train noise that I got used to after a while is accompanied by the sounds of children that I can’t get used to.. I’m about to go crazy. I’m throwing fake laughs around. Trying to listen to music with my friend. Child blocking sounds. Next door, a young lady with a book in her hand is working on something, clearly. In fact, he can’t deal. The noise must have blown her mind too.
Can’t stand it, she’s screaming now. Where is the mother of these children?
Women come quickly and squirm. “Child do this, what are you shouting?”
“I’m going to take the specialization exam, I’m trying to study please, but pay more attention!”
Women come back as if they didn’t understand what was being said. Guys, continue with the same noise.
This time I’m shouting. “Guys please, we got a headache”
They keep laughing and running. My head is cracking.
Hours don’t pass. I will say that I have never seen such a slow train in my life.. It’s been years since I took the train, especially since I never took a long trip by train.. I’m slowly understanding why people don’t get on the train…
2 hours later we can’t move forward. I think we are approaching Aydın. The first city change will be made in the one-hour journey, even by car.. Villagers with roosters, food packages, supplies and children get on at the stand-by stations.. Separate fuss every time.
Comes in charge. It makes a hole in our ticket.
I feel myself in the scenery on the village bus journeys with Kemal Sunal. In every scene, someone with a heavy suitcase in one hand and a child, chicken or rooster in the other!
It’s been a long time, I’m about to have a bad time. No one knows how many hours this road will take. 3 hours by bus from Izmir Denizli.
The railways, which occasionally go to double lane, have been going alone for a long time.. Aegean Plains Around Us. Every car train passes by when we go by the side of the highway.
I’m getting angry. I remember we’re going slow.
I tell my friend I can’t stand it and I’m going to sleep.
I wake up hours later. We enter Denizli 7 hours and 25 minutes after departure.
7 New Lira 25 Kurus ticket; 7 hours 25 minutes road.
The railways that are currently being revised; change the mindset, skip the age now!