The Ada Express ( tr, Ada Ekspresi) is a limited stop regional train service operating between
Gebze
Gebze (,) is a district in Kocaeli Province, Turkey. It is situated 65 km (30 mi) southeast of Istanbul, on the Gulf of Izmit, the eastern arm of the Sea of Marmara. Gebze is the largest district per population size in the province as o ...
,
Kocaeli and
Adapazarı
Adapazarı () is a city in northwestern Turkey and the central district of Sakarya Province. The province itself was originally named Adapazarı as well. Adapazarı is a part of the densely populated region of the country known as the Marmara Regi ...
. It was inaugurated on 5 January 2015 as the successor to the popular ''
Adapazarı Express
The Adapazarı Express ( tr, Adapazarı Ekspresi) officially listed as the Haydarpaşa-Adapazarı Regional ( tr, Haydarpaşa-Adapazarı Bölgeseli) was a regional rail service, that ran between Istanbul and Adapazarı. For the majority of its tim ...
'' train service. However, unlike its predecessor, the ''Ada Express'' does not make local stops and run as often and it does not operate into central
Adapazarı
Adapazarı () is a city in northwestern Turkey and the central district of Sakarya Province. The province itself was originally named Adapazarı as well. Adapazarı is a part of the densely populated region of the country known as the Marmara Regi ...
. Trains consist of
TVS2000
The TÜVASAŞ 2000, more commonly known as TVS2000, is a series of intercity railcars built by TÜVASAŞ for the Turkish State Railways between 1993 and 2005. They were built in order to revive TCDD's failing image in the early 1990s, for use on t ...
cars and use
E68000 series locomotives for motive power.
Gallery
Ada Ekspresi.jpg, An eastbound train in Istanbul.
References
Named passenger trains of Turkey
Railway services introduced in 2015
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