Night trains
Night trains from Tehran
4 sleeper routes · Iran
4 night trains serve Tehran in the World Train Map atlas, with sleeper routes to Bandar Abbas, Shiraz, Mashhad, Tabriz. The longest is the Raja Tehran–Bandar Abbas at 1,286 km (20 h); the oldest service on this list has run since 1957. Board in the evening, wake up 1,286 km closer. Every route below links to its full story and the world railway map.
- Raja Tehran–Bandar Abbas
One of Iran’s longest single-train rides: ~1,290 km across the central desert past Yazd to the Strait of Hormuz, completed when the Bafq link opened in 1995.
- Tehran–Shiraz Night Train
Completed only in 2009, the overnight run leaves Tehran at dusk and descends at dawn past Marvdasht, the plain of Persepolis, into Shiraz.
- Tehran–Mashhad Express
Iran’s busiest corridor: five-star Fadak sleepers glide 926 km east past desert caravanserai country to Imam Reza’s shrine city of Mashhad.
Wikipedia (FA) ↗ - Raja Tehran–Tabriz
Iranian leg of the Tehran–Istanbul Trans-Asia Express, whose onward run once floated the whole train across Turkey’s Lake Van on a rail ferry.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons — each route page credits the author & licence
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