Classic route
Pamukkale Ekspresi
Eskişehir → Denizli · Türkiye
Pamukkale Ekspresi in pictures
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- Distance
- 418 km
- Fastest time
- ~8 h 25 min
- Average speed
- 50 km/h
- Top speed
- 120 km/h
- Operator
- TCDD Taşımacılık
- Train
- Diesel loco · 2+1 Pullman cars
- Countries
- Türkiye
- In service since
- 1936
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Heir of the Haydarpaşa night express: 418 km across the Aegean interior via Kütahya, Afyon and Dinar, down to Denizli’s white travertine country.
How this line was checked
- The 440 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 18320312 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within 65 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 98.5% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 18 m); the longest stretch away from it is 6.5 km
- Checked against the running timetable via Transitous: our line sits 0.4 km from the shape of 72014
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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