Night train route
Tehran–Mashhad Express
Tehran → Mashhad · Iran
- Distance
- 926 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 11 h
- Average speed
- 84 km/h
- Top speed
- 160 km/h
- Train
- Fadak five-star sleeper
- Countries
- Iran
- In service since
- 1957
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Iran’s busiest corridor: five-star Fadak sleepers glide 926 km east past desert caravanserai country to Imam Reza’s shrine city of Mashhad.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 12947420 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 3 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Islamic Republic of Iran Railways — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Read more on Wikipedia (in FA) ↗
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