tcdd passenger trains – Page 2

Turkish cities you can travel to by train

It’s possible to travel to 30 cities in Turkey by train.

Although trains become popular and competetive in some routes with high speed trains, passengers prefering trains fall in Turkey.

Train services from Istanbul to Bucharest and Belgrade started this weekend.

Passenger trains are getting slightly over 1% of share among all travels.

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 passenger trains of TCDD may be operated by private companies beginning with May 2018.

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.