Night train route
Tehran–Shiraz Night Train
Tehran → Shiraz · Iran
Tehran–Shiraz Night Train in pictures
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- Distance
- 935 km
- Fastest time
- 14 h 40 min
- Average speed
- 64 km/h
- Top speed
- 160 km/h
- Operator
- Raja Rail Transportation
- Train
- Raja four-berth sleepers
- Countries
- Iran
- In service since
- 2009
- Runs
- 1–2× nightly each way
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Completed only in 2009, the overnight run leaves Tehran at dusk and descends at dawn past Marvdasht, the plain of Persepolis, into Shiraz.
Shiraz only joined Iran’s rail map in 2009, so its night train from the capital is a young classic. Departures leave Tehran in the early evening, skirting the holy city of Qom and the desert oasis of Kashan while attendants make up the four-berth compartments. By dawn the train is high on the Fars plateau, and it drops past Marvdasht, the plain of Persepolis, to reach the city of Hafez in time for breakfast.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 11382546 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 52 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 14 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
Along the way
- Qom’s shrine skyline
- Kashan at the Dasht-e Kavir rim
- Isfahan by night
- Dawn on the Fars plateau near Eqlid
- Marvdasht and Persepolis
- Shiraz, city of Hafez
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