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The route between Istanbul and Ankara by rail has been a single-track line, and trains usually were delayed 30 minutes to 2 hours plus the average 7 hours, 30 minutes travel time. Rail transport in Turkey was already at its lowest point, so in 2003 the State Railways and the Turkish Ministry of Transport made an agreement to build a 533 km (331 ...
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
A TCDD HT80000 at the ATG terminal in Ankara The ATG terminal in Ankara is a hub for the YHT services of the Turkish State Railways. Prior to the introduction of the high-speed line, the population centres of Istanbul (14 million) and Ankara (5 million) were connected by a 576 km (358 mi) long railway line, of which only 110 km (68 mi) was double-tracked. [8]
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]
[32] [33] Ferry line between Zadar and Preko on the island of Ugljan (northern Dalmatia) is the most frequent one in Croatia and the rest of the Adriatic - in the summer sailing schedule on this 3-nautical-mile-long line (5.6 km; 3.5 mi) there is around 20 departures per day in each direction. [34]
This is the section where trains to Konya and Karaman use the Ankara–Istanbul high-speed railway, before diverging south at Polatlı junction. As of mid-2022, YHT trains operating on the railway are as follows: [26] Ankara-Istanbul: 10x daily; Ankara-Eskişehir: 4x daily; Ankara-Konya: 4x daily; Ankara-Karaman: 2x daily; Istanbul-Konya: 3x daily
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]
The Danube Express is a private train operating in central and eastern Europe. It provides a hotel-on-wheels service with sleeping cars of three comfort categories (Superior DeLuxe, DeLuxe and Heritage classes), completed by restaurant, lounge and staff cars.