Night train route
Güney Kurtalan Ekspresi
Ankara → Kurtalan · Türkiye
- Distance
- 1,265 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 25 h
- Average speed
- 51 km/h
- Top speed
- 120 km/h
- Operator
- TCDD Taşımacılık
- Train
- TCDD sleeper
- Countries
- Türkiye
- In service since
- 1944
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
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.
How this line was checked
- The 308 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 1320906 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 82.5% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 60 m); the longest stretch away from it is 8.5 km
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: TCDD Taşımacılık — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Read more on Wikipedia (in TR) ↗
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