Onur Uysal

Railway consultant.
Founder of RT Media & Consulting.
Founder and editor of Rail Turkey.

Trains stopped

Due to covid-19 epidemic, all intercity train services are suspended in Turkey.

As corona has stopped life to a great extent all over the world, trains started to play greater role in international transport.

The freight trains will soon restart with limited number of wagons between Iran and Turkey.

Three subsidiaries of TCDD for rolling stock manufacturing is merging.

TCDDT announced winter timetables to be valid starting with 8th of December.

The first set of 12 HST sets is on way to Turkey.

Which cities have wider usage of rail, which is more efficient, which one of the metro, tram and suburban systems are used in Turkish cities?

The train departed from China which will pass through 10 countries to Czechia is at Turkey.

The China-Turkey-Europe train passed through Ankara, which kept closed to freight traffic for a long time.

Two new trains restarted in 2019, Ankara and Goller expresses are welcomed by travellers. However there are disappoinments as well.