By the end of 2020, Turkey has 13,000 km of railway, including 1,213 km of high-speed railway. The railway carried 44.8 million passengers and 30 million tons of freight. At present, 90% of Turkey's railway lines are one-way and 75% are non-electric and non-signal lines. Of these, 30 per cent are more than 27 years old and lie idle, severely under-maintained and under-updated. Currently, 3% of Turkey's passenger traffic and 5% of its cargo traffic are carried by rail. The Kar-Tbilisi-Baku railway, jointly built by Turkey, Georgia and Azerbaijan, went into operation on October 30, 2017. The railway has a total length of 838 kilometers. Trains from Turkey can travel through Georgia and Azerbaijan to Central Asia and China, and the transit time can be reduced to 12-15 days. In addition, the Marmara Undersea Railway Tunnel at the mouth of the Bosphorus Strait was opened to traffic on October 29, 2014, connecting railways in Europe and Asia. Turkey's first high-speed railway: Phase I of the Ankara-Istanbul high-speed Railway (Ankara-Eskisheir) was opened on March 13, 2009, with a total length of 249 km and a running time of 80 minutes at 250 km/h. The second high-speed railway: the Ankara-Konya high-speed railway was opened to traffic on August 23, 2011, with a length of 301 km and a running time of 90 minutes at a speed of 250 km/h.
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