Classic route
Northern Trans-Iranian
Tehran → Gorgan · Iran
Northern Trans-Iranian in pictures
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- Distance
- 495 km
- Fastest time
- ~11 h
- Average speed
- 45 km/h
- Top speed
- 100 km/h
- Operator
- Raja · Iranian Railways (RAI)
- Train
- Raja sleeper & couchette cars
- Countries
- Iran
- In service since
- 1938
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The Trans-Iranian’s UNESCO-listed northern arm: night sleepers spiral down the Alborz over the Veresk bridge, from Tehran’s desert rim to the Caspian plain.
How this line was checked
- The 202 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 19980330 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 16 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: RAJA Passenger Trains — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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