🇹🇷 Operator
Train routes operated by Metro Istanbul
2 routes · mountain 2
Metro Istanbul runs 2 of the routes in the World Train Map atlas, 1.16 km of railway across 1 country. The longest is the F1 Taksim–Kabataş Funicular at 0.59 km; the fastest is the Tünel, running up to 22 km/h; the oldest line it runs over here opened in 1875.
The company itself dates to 1988, filed on Wikidata as a transport company. What this page says about the company comes from Metro Istanbul's own Wikidata item, checked against the countries its routes here actually cross before any of it is used; everything about the railway is counted from this atlas. Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata Q344299 ↗
Open the world railway map →- Routes here
- 2
- Total length
- 1.16 km
- Countries
- Türkiye
- Fastest
- Tünel · 22 km/h
- Oldest line here
- 1875
- Company founded
- 1988
- Type
- transport company
- Longest
- F1 Taksim–Kabataş Funicular · 0.59 km
Mountain (2)
- F1 Taksim–Kabataş Funicular
A deep-bored 2006 funicular linking Bosphorus ferries and trams at Kabataş with Taksim Square — Istanbul’s modern echo of the 1875 Tünel.
Wikipedia ↗ - Tünel
Opened 1875 — the world’s second-oldest underground urban railway after London’s, and the oldest underground funicular still running.
Wikipedia ↗
Photos via Wikimedia Commons — each route page credits the author & licence
How many train routes does Metro Istanbul run?
2 of the routes in this atlas are Metro Istanbul services, covering 1.16 km across 1 country (Türkiye). That is what this atlas draws, not the operator's whole network — a national railway runs thousands of local services no map of notable journeys would list.
What is the fastest Metro Istanbul train?
The Tünel, Karaköy to Beyoğlu, at up to 22 km/h. Its fastest scheduled run takes 2 min over 0.57 km.
Does Metro Istanbul run night trains?
Not in this atlas. All 2 Metro Istanbul routes listed here are daytime services.
When was Metro Istanbul founded?
Wikidata records the company's inception as 1988, and files it as a transport company. The oldest railway it runs over in this atlas opened in 1875 — the line and the company are rarely the same age, and this page dates both.
Countries Metro Istanbul runs in
- 🇹🇷 Train routes in Türkiye 14 routes
Other operators in Türkiye
- TCDD Taşımacılık 10 routes