Classic route
Tulpar-Talgo
Almaty → Shymkent · Kazakhstan
Tulpar-Talgo in pictures
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- Distance
- 700 km
- Fastest time
- 11 h
- Average speed
- 64 km/h
- Top speed
- 160 km/h
- Operator
- Kazakhstan Railways (KTZ)
- Train
- Tulpar-Talgo
- Countries
- Kazakhstan
- In service since
- 2015
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
A Spanish-built Talgo hauled across the Kazakh steppe between Almaty and the southern city of Shymkent via Taraz.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 6097264 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 29 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 5 m from it
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