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You can enjoy travel in
a sleeping
car on these Turkish routes
and trains. Here's how to buy tickets.
Ankara
Ekspresi
Turkey's premier overnight train, it hauls only
sleeping cars.
Anadolu
Ekspresi
A good mixed train of sleeping cars, couchettes and
compartment cars.
Dogu
Ekspresi
Older, slower, less "prime"... unless you're
going far east,
take the Ankara
Ekspresi or Anadolu
Ekspresi instead.
Vangölü/Güney/Trans
Asya Ekspresi
On alternate days (more or less) this slow, old train
ends un in Van or Diyarbakir. Once a week it goes
on to Teheran.
Toros
Ekspresi
It's a pretty long trip by train between Istanbul
and Adana or Gaziantep... The plane takes less than
two hours. Once a week a sleeping car continues to
Damascus.
Iç Anadolu
Mavi Tren
This Istanbul-Adana "Inner Anatolia Blue Train" is
the best on the run.
Meram
Ekspresi
This Istanbul-Konya
train departs at dinnertime, takes
13-1/2 hours, arrives at breakfast
time the next morning. Good!
Pamukkale
Ekspresi
A 15-hour, 665-km
(413-mile) overnight run, the closest
you'll get to Izmir from Istanbul by
sleeper train (no train service Istanbul-Izmir).
Izmir
Mavi Tren
This good "Blue Train" is mixed, with sleeping
and Pullman cars. Other
Ankara-Izmir trains.
Erzurum
Ekspresi
Preferable to the Dogu
Ekspresi: faster and newer.
Sleeper
train fares from
the TCDD website. (Tam means "full
fare," %20 indirimli means "20%
discount" (for round-trip/return
tickets, children 0 to 7 years old,
students, teachers, soldiers, those
aged 60+, groups of 12 or more, the
handicapped, and members of the press).
How
to make reservations and buy
train tickets in advance.
Please read this
safety notice about sleeping
car travel.
Turkish
State Railways Route Map
Types
of Turkish Trains
How & Where
to Buy Train Tickets
Fare
Discounts
Money-Saving
Monthly Passes
Pullman
Car
Couchette
Car
Sleeping
Car
How
to Decipher the TCDD Website
Train
Travel
Transportation
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