Scenic route
Trans-Iranian Railway
Tehran → Khorramshahr · Iran
- Distance
- 937 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 15 h
- Top speed
- 100 km/h
- Operator
- Islamic Republic of Iran Railways
- Train
- RAJA sleeper
- Countries
- Iran
- In service since
- 1938
The UNESCO-listed 1938 masterpiece paid for by taxes on tea and sugar — night trains spiral down the Zagros through a maze of tunnels to the Gulf plain.
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