Night trains
Night trains from Ankara
3 sleeper routes · Türkiye
3 night trains serve Ankara in the World Train Map atlas, with sleeper routes to Tatvan, Kurtalan, Izmir. The longest is the Van Gölü Ekspresi at 1,267 km (25 h 50 min); the oldest service on this list has run since 1944. Board in the evening, wake up 1,267 km closer. Every route below links to its full story and the world railway map.
- Van Gölü Ekspresi
Ends 1,267 km from Ankara at a ferry slip on Lake Van, where wagons bound for Iran are floated across Turkey’s largest lake.
Wikipedia ↗ - Güney Kurtalan Ekspresi
The third of Turkey’s great eastern sleepers: off the Anatolian plateau to Diyarbakır’s black basalt walls and the Tigris, ending at railhead Kurtalan.
Wikipedia (TR) ↗ - İzmir Mavi Treni
One of Turkey’s last classic ’Blue Train’ sleepers: 883 km overnight across western Anatolia via Eskişehir while the parallel high-speed line stays years off.
Wikipedia ↗
Photos via Wikimedia Commons — each route page credits the author & licence
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