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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
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 main train connecting Istanbul to central Europe was the Istanbul Express (Ex 1292/1293), operating between Munich, Germany and Istanbul, via Salzburg, Ljubljana, Zagreb, Belgrade and Sofia. In 1991, a new train service from Istanbul to central Europe was inaugurated, the Balkan Express. [ 1 ]
The Taurus Express (Turkish: Toros Ekspresi) is a passenger train named after the Taurus Mountains in Southern Turkey. It was launched in 1930 by Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits and originally connected Istanbul with Aleppo, Tripoli (for connections to Palestine) and Nusaybin (for connections to Iraq).
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]
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]
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 ...
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]