chaim
Traveller
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Posted 15 years ago
I am looking to travel from Istanbul to Split in the middle of August. The route planner says there is a sleeper train we can take out of Istanbul, but the printed timetable says that the service is suspended. Does anyone know if the sleeper service is operational? If not, is just a regular train service that operates along that route?
SiDUDe
Traveller
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This is the latest information I have
IMPORTANT UPDATE UNTIL JUNE 2009: The through sleeping-car & seats car from Belgrade to Istanbul are currently not running. You can still leave Belgrade at 07:50, but you have to travel in (rather basic) seating cars from Belgrade to Sofia arriving 17:40, where you change trains and transfer to the Bulgarian sleeping-car for the overnight part of the journey to Istanbul (departing Sofia 19:10). You can't book the Sofia-Istanbul sleeping-car from outside Bulgaria, so you'll just have to approach the sleeper attendant on arrival in Sofia and pay him the sleeper supplement for a berth. There are almost always spare berths available. The direct Belgrade to Istanbul sleeping-car is due to resume running in June 2009.
however, it may be running again now, I dont know. Youd have to ask in Istanbul