Trains to Bucharest and Belgrade started
Train services from Istanbul to Bucharest and Belgrade started this weekend.
Train services from Istanbul to Bucharest and Belgrade started this weekend.
Passenger trains are getting slightly over 1% of share among all travels.
TCDD Tasimacilik’s new Siemens high speed train sets will start operation starting from tomorrow.
TCDD announced new international train connections to Bucharest and Belgrade in summer.
Bosphor Express, the overnight train between Istanbul and Sofia will start direct service tonight from Halkali.
TCDD is getting prepared to open the new Ankara high speed train station and the new high speed train to service.
TCDD ended three regional services this year, Konya-Aksehir, Cerkezkoy-Uzunkopru and Cerkezkoy-Kapikule due to big loss and insufficient demand.
After 3 years, passenger trains restarted running on Balikesir-Kutahya section.
The first passenger train between Konya and Karaman will start service at the end of this year.
The passenger trains of TCDD may be operated by private companies beginning with May 2018.
For many years the only international services to / from Europe have been provided by the Bosphorus Express, which conveyed sleeping and couchette cars from Istanbul to Sofia and Bucharest each night.
In 2015, Every one of four train passengers prefered high speed trains in Turkey.
Torbali, where all passenger trains from Izmir to south is passing by, may be hub in the near future.
Train services in European side of Turkey has restarted with the first train started service between Halkali and Kapikule yesterday.
TCDD – or to be more exact TCDD Tasimacilik AS – operates just sixteen classic long-distance train services (as opposed to the YHT network of high speed trains).