May 27, 2012
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Turkey, Syria to launch passenger rail service
7 January 2010 / THE ANATOLIA NEWS AGENCY, GAZIANTEP
Turkish State Railways, or TCDD, will cooperate with Syria's railway authority to launch passenger train services between the Turkish city of Gaziantep and the Syrian city of Aleppo.
TCDD completed maintenance and repair works at part of Hejaz Railway which was built almost a century ago to link İstanbul and Damascus to Hejaz region in Saudi Arabia.
Passenger train services between Gaziantep and Aleppo will begin on Friday, TCDD officials said.
Train services will run twice a week, on Friday and Sunday. It takes nearly 3 hours to travel between the two cities.
Turkish officials expect to carry 1 million ton freight and 100,000 passengers along the line annually.
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