From Istanbul to Antalya in 4 hours and 45 minutes!

Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Abdulkadir Uraloglu announced the construction of a high-speed railway that will connect Eskisehir with Antalya. It is noteworthy that this project has been on the agenda since the time of the Ottoman Empire. In 1933, within the framework of a law passed by the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, 25 million liras were allocated for the construction of the 324-kilometer Afyonkarahisar-Antalya railway line. The project was planned to be completed within 4 years. Part of the project to Burdur was completed, but the Antalya line remained unfinished due to lack of funds due to the outbreak of World War II. And now, after almost 100 years, the project has been resumed.

The new Antalya-Eskisehir high-speed railway line will also become part of the high-speed lines connecting Ankara, Istanbul and Izmir. After the completion of the project, Antalya can be reached from Istanbul in 4 hours and 45 minutes.

According to the project, the new railway line will consist of a 425-kilometer section Eskisehir-Kutakhya-Afyonkarakhisar-Isparta/Burdur-Antalya and a 541-kilometer section Kayseri-Aksaray-Konya-Seydisehir-Antalya. The design speed of the line is 200 km/hour.