High-speed route
Yüksek Hızlı Tren (YHT)
Ankara → Sivas · Türkiye
Yüksek Hızlı Tren (YHT) in pictures
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- Distance
- 406 km
- Fastest time
- 2 h 51 min
- Average speed
- 142 km/h
- Top speed
- 250 km/h
- Operator
- TCDD Taşımacılık
- Train
- HT80000 (Velaro TR)
- Countries
- Türkiye
- In service since
- 2023
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Turkey’s longest domestic high-speed line, 406 km over 11 tunnels and 6 viaducts, replaced a 12-hour conventional slog to Sivas with under three hours.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 7001049 — 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 6 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via Transitous: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of 81406
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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