-PASSENGER TRAIN SERVICE BETWEEN TURKEY AND SYRIA TO START

-PASSENGER TRAIN SERVICE BETWEEN TURKEY AND SYRIA TO START

ANKARA (A.A) - 11.03.2009 - A passenger train service between Turkey and Syria will begin on Thursday.
The new passenger train would travel between the Turkish city of Mersin and Syrian city of Aleppo, a Turkish State Railways Administration (TCDD) statement said.
TCDD and Syrian Railways have decided to launch a new train service between the two cities in order to meet the increasing transportation demand.
Media representatives will join the first train trip between Mersin and Aleppo. The train will leave Aleppo at 10:40 a.m. and reach the southern Turkish city of Adana at 6 p.m. and Mersin at 7 p.m.
The Syrian people who travel on the train will be seen off from Mersin to Aleppo at 11 p.m. 
The Aleppo-Mersin train will depart from Aleppo at 9 p.m. every Monday and Thursday, and it will depart from Mersin at 11 p.m. every Friday.
The train will make reciprocal voyages two days a week. It will take nine hours and 20 minutes to travel between the Turkish and Syrian cities.
Consisting of five passenger cars and one dining car, the train can carry 260 passengers.