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The Taurus Express (Turkish: Toros Ekspresi) is a passenger train named after the Taurus Mountains in Southern Turkey. It was launched in 1930 by Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits and originally connected Istanbul with Aleppo, Tripoli (for connections to Palestine) and Nusaybin (for connections to Iraq).
Background on trains from Istanbul to Syria: A brief history of the Taurus Express: Agatha Christie wrote the first part of her novel Murder on the Orient Express during her stay in room 203 in Baron Hotel in Aleppo. [19] The novel doesn't start in Istanbul, or on the Orient Express.
It opens on the platform at Aleppo, next to the two blue-and-gold Wagons-Lits sleeping cars of the Taurus Express bound for Istanbul. The Taurus Express was inaugurated in February 1930 by the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits, the same company that operated the Orient Express and Simplon Orient Express, as a means of extending their ...
An alternate connection to the east was finally opened in 1936. On 15 February 1930, the Taurus Express made its maiden journey from Haydarpaşa station in Istanbul to Baghdad, via Konya. This train, operated by Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits (CIWL), was a luxury train and the Anatolian counterpart to the Orient Express.
February 15 – The Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits operates the first Taurus Express between Istanbul and Baghdad, with road connection between Nusaybin and Kirkuk. February 18 – The Pullman Company buys the Osgood Bradley Car Company, which has been making trolley and other transit cars since 1833.
English: (red) Route of Taurus(Toros) Express in 1930. (red dotted) Extensions and route changes. (blue) Simplon Orient-Express and Haifa-Cairo Express. (black) Narrow gauge railways. (gray dotted) Road and sea connections.
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The famous Taurus Express from Haydarpaşa to Baghdad, a distance of 2,566 km (1,594 mi), entered service in 1940. [12] In 1965 the Trans-Asia Express began running from Haydarpaşa to Tehran , a distance of 3,059 km (1,901 mi). [ 13 ]