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Train routes operated by TCDD Taşımacılık
10 routes · high-speed 3 · classic 3 · night train 3 · scenic 1
TCDD Taşımacılık runs 10 of the routes in the World Train Map atlas, 7,144 km of railway across 1 country. The longest is the Doğu Ekspresi at 1,365 km; the fastest is the YHT, running up to 250 km/h; the oldest line it runs over here opened in 1918.
The company itself dates to 2016, filed on Wikidata as a railway company. What this page says about the company comes from TCDD Taşımacılık'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. Official site ↗ · Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata Q28220824 ↗
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- 10
- Total length
- 7,144 km
- Countries
- Türkiye
- Fastest
- YHT · 250 km/h
- Longest
- Doğu Ekspresi · 1,365 km
- Oldest line here
- 1918
- Company founded
- 2016
- Type
- railway company
High-speed (3)
- YHT
From the Bosphorus across the Anatolian steppe. Türkiye’s white Velaros bridge two continents’ doorstep.
Wikipedia ↗ - Yüksek Hızlı Tren (YHT)
Turkey’s longest domestic high-speed line, 406 km over 11 tunnels and 6 viaducts, replaced a 12-hour conventional slog to Sivas with under three hours.
Wikipedia ↗ - Yüksek Hızlı Tren (YHT)
Turkey’s second high-speed line (2011) cut Ankara–Konya from over 10 hours to under two, racing across the Anatolian steppe past salt-pan Lake Tuz.
Wikipedia ↗
Classic (3)
- Pamukkale Ekspresi
Heir of the Haydarpaşa night express: 418 km across the Aegean interior via Kütahya, Afyon and Dinar, down to Denizli’s white travertine country.
Wikipedia ↗ - Toros Ekspresi
Heir to the Taurus Express of Agatha Christie fame: down the Cilician Gates on Baghdad Railway engineering to the cotton plains of Adana.
Wikipedia ↗ - 6 Eylül Ekspresi
Heir of the Bandırma boat trains that sped İzmir–Istanbul travellers to the Marmara ferries: relaunched in 2023, 341 km via Manisa and Balıkesir.
Wikipedia ↗
Night train (3)
- 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 ↗
Scenic (1)
- Doğu Ekspresi
Turkey’s cult 1,365 km trans-Anatolian sleeper to the snowy Caucasus frontier at Kars; social-media fame makes seats sell out weeks ahead.
Wikipedia ↗
Photos via Wikimedia Commons — each route page credits the author & licence
How many train routes does TCDD Taşımacılık run?
10 of the routes in this atlas are TCDD Taşımacılık services, covering 7,144 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 TCDD Taşımacılık train?
The YHT, Istanbul to Ankara, at up to 250 km/h. Its fastest scheduled run takes ≈ 4 h 30 min over 533 km.
Does TCDD Taşımacılık run night trains?
Yes — 3 sleeper services in this atlas: Van Gölü Ekspresi (Ankara – Tatvan), Güney Kurtalan Ekspresi (Ankara – Kurtalan), İzmir Mavi Treni (Ankara – Izmir).
When was TCDD Taşımacılık founded?
Wikidata records the company's inception as 2016, and files it as a railway company. The oldest railway it runs over in this atlas opened in 1918 — the line and the company are rarely the same age, and this page dates both.
Countries TCDD Taşımacılık runs in
- 🇹🇷 Train routes in Türkiye 14 routes
Other operators in Türkiye
- Metro Istanbul 2 routes