Tatvan Pier railway station

Railway station in Bitlis, Turkey

Preceding station	TCDD Taşımacılık			Following station
Tatvan towards Ankara		Trans-Asia Express Service suspended		Terminus
Terminus		Lake Van Ferry		Van Pier Terminus

Tatvan Pier railway station (Turkish: Tatvan İskele istasyonu) is a railway station and pier in Tatvan, Turkey. Situated on the western shore of Lake Van, the station serves as a connection between modes of transport, with two slips carrying a total of seven tracks. TCDD Taşımacılık operates a ferry, the Lake Van Ferry, between Tatvan and Van, which carries passengers freight railcars and vehicles across the lake. Up until July 2015, the Trans-Asia Express, from Ankara, stopped at the station. Passengers would travel to Van via ferry, where the eastern half of the train would continue to Tehran, Iran.^[1] As of mid-2015, freight trains are the only rail traffic at the station.^[2]