Night trains
Night trains from Ankara
2 sleeper routes · Türkiye
2 night trains serve Ankara in the TrainRouter atlas — sleeper routes to Tatvan, Izmir. The longest is the Van Gölü Ekspresi at 1,267 km (25 h 50 min); the oldest service on this list has run since 1964. Board in the evening, wake up 1,267 km closer — every route below links to its full story and the world railway map.
Van Gölü Ekspresi
Ankara → Tatvan · 1,267 km · 25 h 50 min · TCDD Taşımacılık · TVS2000 sleeper & pullman cars
Ends 1,267 km from Ankara at a ferry slip on Lake Van, where wagons bound for Iran are floated across Turkey’s largest lake.
İzmir Mavi Treni
Ankara → Izmir · 883 km · 13 h · TCDD Taşımacılık · E68000 loco · sleeper & Pullman cars
One of Turkey’s last classic ’Blue Train’ sleepers — 883 km overnight across western Anatolia via Eskişehir while the parallel high-speed line stays years off.
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