Scenic route
Trans-Iranian Railway
Tehran → Khorramshahr · Iran
Trans-Iranian Railway in pictures
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- Distance
- 937 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 15 h
- Average speed
- 62 km/h
- Top speed
- 100 km/h
- Train
- RAJA sleeper
- Countries
- Iran
- In service since
- 1938
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The UNESCO-listed 1938 masterpiece paid for by taxes on tea and sugar: night trains spiral down the Zagros through a maze of tunnels to the Gulf plain.
How this line was checked
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 97.5% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 3 m); the longest stretch away from it is 9.5 km
- 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
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