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The Dostluk/Filia
(Friendship) Express which
used to run nightly between Istanbul and Thessaloniki (Selanik),
Greece, departing each city at 21:00
(9 pm) and arriving in the
other city about 08:00
am the next morning, has
been "suspended until further notice."
In other words, as of May 2011, it
is no longer running. I have no news
about when it might begin running again.
(The bus is
much faster, and cheape in any case. More...)
The Dostluk/Filia
Ekspresi hauled
only air-conditioned sleeping
cars (no normal passenger cars).
The one-way fare, including the sleeping
compartment fee, was €85 for
one person in a private sleeping compartment,
or €97 for two people (€48.50
per person) sharing a sleeping compartment.
The route was Istanbul-
Alpullu- Pehlivanköy- Uzunköprü-
Pythion- Alexandroupolis- Komotini-
Xanthi- Drama- Serres- Rodopolis- Kiklis-
Thessaloniki.
The only other train between Istanbul
and Europe is the Bosphorus
Express. More...
For information on trains
in Greece, see the OSE (Hellenic
Railways Organization) website (in
English).
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