İZBAN operates commuter trains north to Aliağa and Menemen and south to Cumaovası and Tepeköy.

So, the Ottoman Empire gave a concession to a British company to build a railway from Aydın to İzmir, on 22 September 1856.

The Ottoman Railway Company chose to start their line in the neighborhood of Alsancak, near the docks.

[2] When this line opened, freight traffic was too heavy for Kemer to handle and the ORC needed a larger depot.

[1] Also a lot of rich foreign and Ottoman business leviathans lived in İzmir, mainly in Bornova, Şirinyer and Buca.

Passenger traffic increased once the Şirinyer-Buca branch was opened, in 1870 and a new station was needed to be built for these rich families.

In 1890s a tram line was opened from the dock in Pasaport to Alsancak station, traveling up the Kordon waterfront.

[1] With the opening of this tram line traffic increased even more and the existing freight depots were moved to the Alsancak docks.

The Ottoman Empire eventually lost the war in 1920 and the Allies started to occupy Anatolia.

Control of the line was handed back to the ORC on 6 November 1922, when the Ottoman Empire officially collapsed.

During the 4 years that it was closed to passenger service, Nil Karaibrahimgil and Sıla performed on the platforms.