Scenic route
Doğu Ekspresi
Ankara → Kars · Türkiye
Doğu Ekspresi in pictures
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- Distance
- 1,365 km
- Fastest time
- 25 h
- Average speed
- 55 km/h
- Top speed
- 120 km/h
- Operator
- TCDD Taşımacılık
- Train
- TCDD sleeper & couchette cars
- Countries
- Türkiye
- In service since
- 1936
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
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.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 18713200 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 174 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 98.5% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 53 m); the longest stretch away from it is 2.5 km
- Checked against the running timetable via Transitous: our line sits 0.2 km from the shape of 22010
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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