Night trains
Night trains from Tehran
3 sleeper routes · Iran
3 night trains serve Tehran in the TrainRouter atlas — sleeper routes to Bandar Abbas, Mashhad, Tabriz. The longest is the Raja Tehran–Bandar Abbas at 1,286 km (20 h); the oldest service on this list has run since 1957. Board in the evening, wake up 1,286 km closer — every route below links to its full story and the world railway map.
Raja Tehran–Bandar Abbas
Tehran → Bandar Abbas · 1,286 km · 20 h · Raja · Iranian Railways (RAI) · Raja long-distance sleeper
One of Iran’s longest single-train rides: ~1,290 km across the central desert past Yazd to the Strait of Hormuz, completed when the Bafq link opened in 1995.
Tehran–Mashhad Express
Tehran → Mashhad · 926 km · ≈ 11 h · Islamic Republic of Iran Railways · Fadak five-star sleeper
Iran’s busiest corridor — five-star Fadak sleepers glide 926 km east past desert caravanserai country to Imam Reza’s shrine city of Mashhad.
Raja Tehran–Tabriz
Tehran → Tabriz · 736 km · 12 h · Raja · Iranian Railways (RAI) · Raja sleeper coaches
Iranian leg of the Tehran–Istanbul Trans-Asia Express, whose onward run once floated the whole train across Turkey’s Lake Van on a rail ferry.
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