“THE VERY”s of railway in Turkey
Biggest rolling stock fleets, intermodal services, rail connected ports..
Best rail freight terminals..
Top companies using railway
Best urban rail solutions..
Steepest gradients, busiest lines..
What’s hot
Private companies request 320 loco drivers
Railway Transportation Association (DTD) announced that his members will soon need 320 loco drivers.
What is ready in Kars-Tblisi-Baku railway, and what’s not?
Previous day, Kars-Tblisi-Baku project was again on media, as the first trial train departed from Turkey arrived Georgian border. So, is everything ready about the project?
Hundreds of loco drivers to be needed
As private train operators started getting prepared and recruitments, a profession in Turkey has started to be on focus day by day: Loco drivers.
Liberalization
The liberalization started in practice with the split of TCDD into two as railway and train operators. The process has speeded up with the interesting steps within first three months of this year.
While global companies are looking for ways to enter Turkish market, Turkey’s leading logistics service providers are getting prepared to run first private locos before this year ends.
TCDD Tasimacilik’s step of renting its locos and freight wagons may speed up the liberalization much faster than expected.
Travel by Train
High speed trains with speed upto 250 km/h, main lines going through places otherwise you’ll never see, overnight trains crossing all over Turkey while you are sleeping in comfort..
Train routes, costs, details, travel rules, timetables, stations, station timetables, access to stations, stories of train travellers, touristic routes..
Everything you want to know about travel by train in Turkey..
Metros and Trams
Turkey’s mega cities with heavy traffic problems introduce metro/tram solutions one after the other..
Istanbul and many other cities are now discussing metro, tram, suburban and monorail systems.. Some already commissioned, some under construction, some on paper..
Hot news, comparisons and project details of Turkey’s all metro and tram systems are at Rail Turkey
Railway Library
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Fast and easy access to anything you are looking for about Turkish railways is at Rail Turkey Railway Library
Carreer in Railways
Turkish railways is getting prepared for a big and rapid change..
New train operators, new fleet owners and maintanance services, new terminal operators, new specialists to manage all this new logistics movement..
Railway industry has already started to build up their teams for this critical turn.
Either being a new-graduated on railway or an senior specialist with lots of experience. We’d like to bring you together with the companies searching for you. Respecting your preferences and confidentiality, easily and quickly..
Rail Turkey is now 4 years old
Turkey’s the only railway journal published in Turkish and English was founded 4 years ago.
We’ve born to an interesting period of Turkish railways which is changing fastly with liberalization, and, in our 4th anniversary, we introduce new features in Rail Turkey.
