Onur Uysal

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

Istanbul-Ankara sleeper service to start

Overnight service with sleepers will start between Istanbul and Ankara after 7 years.

It becomes really hard to follow the changes done and announced about passenger train services this summer.

TCDD Tasimacilik hit the record of 2.77 million tons of freight in May.

Istanbul-Bucharest train service, which has been run during summer time, will start next week.

A new train service connection between Bulgaria and Turkey is announced.

Steel pipes produced in Turkey will be used for the new natural gas pipeline between Slovakia and Poland.

Trains that has developed Kayseri industry and Mersin Port is now losing power.

New touristic version of Dogu Express only with sleepers are on sale.

As touristic version of Dogu Express will start on 29th of May, more touristic routes are on the table.

The ruins which were discovered during renewal of tracks at Haydarpasa train station seem to spread wider area.