Scenic route
Doğu Ekspresi
Ankara → Kars · Türkiye
- Distance
- 1,365 km
- Fastest time
- 25 h
- Top speed
- 120 km/h
- Operator
- TCDD Taşımacılık
- Train
- TCDD sleeper & couchette cars
- Countries
- Türkiye
- In service since
- 1936
Turkey’s cult 1,365 km trans-Anatolian sleeper to the snowy Caucasus frontier at Kars; social-media fame makes seats sell out weeks ahead.
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