Night train route
İzmir Mavi Treni
Ankara → Izmir · Türkiye
İzmir Mavi Treni in pictures
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- Distance
- 883 km
- Fastest time
- 13 h
- Average speed
- 68 km/h
- Top speed
- 120 km/h
- Operator
- TCDD Taşımacılık
- Train
- E68000 loco · sleeper & Pullman cars
- Countries
- Türkiye
- In service since
- 1983
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
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.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from 2 OpenStreetMap relations, their own nodes end to end: relation 1320474 (252 km), relation 1316775 (247 km) — 499 km of the route between them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 95.3% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 30 m); the longest stretch away from it is 3 km
- Checked against the running timetable via Transitous: our line sits 0.2 km from the shape of 22006
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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All sleepers serving these cities: night trains from Ankara · all 108 night trains.
More train routes in Türkiye.