Clean Transport

Turkey Doing Test Runs of New Bullet Trains

Published

December 20, 2010

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Turkey has had high-speed rail for a few years now. It received high-speed trains that can go up to 250 km/h (155 mph) from Spain in November of 2007. Turkish Railways (TCDD) was reportedly the 8th high-speed rail operator in the world (the 6th in Europe).

Now, Turkey has just tested out its first bullet trains, between the cities of Ankara and Konya. This inaugural run was on December 17 and was attended by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

The bullet train test runs will end in summer 2011 and the new, super-fast trains will be officially launched then.

Photo Credit: TREND

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