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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/fire-engulfs-istanbul-train-station.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Flames and smoke rise from the roof of Istanbul's historic Haydarpasa train station" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/min-fire-engulfs-istanbul-train-station.jpg" alt="Flames and smoke rise from the roof of Istanbul's historic Haydarpasa train station"/></a></p>
<p>Firefighters battled a blaze that engulfed the roof of Istanbul&#8217;s historic Haydarpasa train station building during restoration work, authorities have said.</p>
<p>The blazes damaged most of the roof of the early 20th century building and the fourth floor, said Selami Ozturk, local mayor of the Kadikoy district.</p>
<p>&#8220;The fire has been put under control, there are no casualties,&#8221; said Gov Huseyin Avni Mutlu of Istanbul. &#8220;However, it is sad that such a historic building has been damaged.&#8221;</p>
<p>Talat Aydin, deputy under-secretary of the Transportation Ministry, said trains from Anatolia would start carrying passengers to Haydarpasa again in a few hours.</p>
<p>Private NTV television said welding or an electrical short circuit might have caused the blaze on the roof but authorities said it was early to determine the cause.</p>
<p>Fireboats used water cannons to spray water on the roof of the U-shaped building built by German architects. Gray smoke was still billowing from the top of the building after the firefighters got the blaze under control.</p>
<p>Eyup Muhcu, head of Turkey&#8217;s Architects&#8217; Chamber, said the building was considered to be a historic monument.</p>
<p>The firefighters were still trying to cool down the building with seawater.</p>
<p>Haydarpasa was built in 1908 on the Asian side of Istanbul, bisected by the Bosporus Strait, as part of German Empire&#8217;s ambitious Berlin-Baghdad railway project aimed at gaining control and influence in the region.</p>
<p>It is a splendid structure with flights of marble stairs leading to the ground floor from where passengers board trains from several tracks. The monument, covered by textured sandstone, sits on a foundation of hundreds of timber piles, hammered into the seabed.</p>
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