Night train route
Güney Kurtalan Ekspresi
Ankara → Kurtalan · Türkiye
- Distance
- 1,265 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 25 h
- Top speed
- 120 km/h
- Operator
- TCDD Taşımacılık
- Train
- TCDD sleeper
- Countries
- Türkiye
- In service since
- 1944
Page last updated 2026-07-19 · figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The third of Turkey’s great eastern sleepers: off the Anatolian plateau to Diyarbakır’s black basalt walls and the Tigris, ending at railhead Kurtalan.
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