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Railways for international traffic are: main (corridor) lines, which are located on international railway corridors and their branches (corridors RH1, RH2 and RH3); other lines for international traffic, which within railway hubs and outside them functionally connect the main (corridor) lines or which international sea and river ports and terminals connect with the main (corridor) lines
Croatian Railways (Croatian: Hrvatske željeznice; abbreviated as HŽ) was the national railway company of Croatia. [1] It was a member of the International Union of Railways (UIC). The UIC Country Code for Croatia is 78. The Croatian rail network carried 24.230 million passengers in 2023. [2] [3] [4]
Transport in Croatia relies on several main modes, including transport by car, train, ship and plane. Road transport incorporates a comprehensive network of state, county and local routes augmented by a network of highways for long-distance travelling.
The Lake Van Express or Van Lake Express (Turkish: Van Gölü Ekspresi), operated by TCDD Transport is an overnight train consisting of pullman, couchettes, sleeping and dining wagons, which runs twice a week on the Ankara-Tatvan [4] route of over 1,300 km. Travelling the full route takes about 26 hours. [5]
HZ, national railway operator will introduce 7 additional Diesel electric train sets for regional passenger service, all 7 train sets should be delivered by end of 2025. [5] National rail operator also plans to purchase additional intercity trains, 6 sets for total of €47.78 million, or around €8. million per train on Zagreb - Split route.
The first train ran in 1936 from Istanbul's Haydarpaşa Terminal to Çetinkaya. [3] Until the Ankara–Istanbul high-speed railway project, the train ran between Istanbul and Kars. Due to the increasing popularity of the train, TCDD Taşımacılık added a second train named the Touristic Eastern Express. This new train operates three times a ...
Travel time between Ankara and Sivas was reduced to 2 hours and 50 minutes, [2] from around 9 hours and 30 minutes with conventional trains. [3] [4] The railway will also serve as an extension of the Ankara-Istanbul HSR with a total journey time from Istanbul to Sivas at around 7 hours. The line was opened on April 26, 2023. [5]
Accor plans to reopen the Orient Express between Paris and Istanbul as a luxury train in 2025; Midnight Trains, a private operator, planned to open up new routes of sleeper trains across Europe such as Paris to Rome, Porto, Madrid/Barcelona, Venice, Edinburgh, among other destinations. It was discontinued in 2024 [51]