Classic route
Toros Ekspresi
Konya → Adana · Türkiye
Toros Ekspresi in pictures
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- Distance
- 360 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 6 h
- Average speed
- 60 km/h
- Top speed
- 120 km/h
- Operator
- TCDD Taşımacılık
- Train
- TCDD express
- Countries
- Türkiye
- In service since
- 1918
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Heir to the Taurus Express of Agatha Christie fame: down the Cilician Gates on Baghdad Railway engineering to the cotton plains of Adana.
How this line was checked
- The 108 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 19709544 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 94.3% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 12 m); the longest stretch away from it is 8 km
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: TCDD Taşımacılık — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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