Covid decreased HST ridership by 5 mn
The impacts of 2020 in railway transportation come into view one after the other.
Private passenger trains on way
Minister of Transport announced start of liberalization on passenger trains by next year.
Winter surprises: Bogazici, Ege and Touristic Dogu expresses
TCDDT announced winter timetables to be valid starting with 8th of December.
Goller Express to depart
Goller Express, the Izmir-Isparta train, will start service on 25th of October, 2019.
Istanbul-Ankara sleeper service to start
Overnight service with sleepers will start between Istanbul and Ankara after 7 years.
Passenger trains: Full of surprises
It becomes really hard to follow the changes done and announced about passenger train services this summer.
The new touristic train routes of Turkey
As touristic version of Dogu Express will start on 29th of May, more touristic routes are on the table.
Tourism train project unveiled
Minister of Tourism introduced new project: Tourism trains.
Trainless Istanbul
Turkey’s commercial capital Istanbul is unfortunately has very poor train connections.
Passenger transportaion by rail on the rise
Intercity passenger transportation by rail is now on the rise after a sharp decline in 2016.
Passenger trains fuming black
The ridership of passenger trains are falling very fast in Turkey.
Turkish cities you can travel to by train
34 cities have passenger train service to city center in Turkey.
TCDD Tasimacilik secured passenger transportation until 2021
The passenger trains which are making loss will continue to be organized by TCDD Tasimacilik until the end of 2020.
Train ridership falls in Turkey
Although trains become popular and competetive in some routes with high speed trains, passengers prefering trains fall in Turkey.
Top countries travelling by train
The research about train travel among 26 EU countries, Switzerland, USA, China, India, Japan, South Korea, Canada, Russia and Turkey is quite interesting.
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