High-speed Train Brought To Istanbul

ISTANBUL - High-speed train -which Turkish State Railways (TCDD) Directorate General purchased from Spanish CAF Company- was brought to Istanbul's Sirkeci Station on Tuesday.
High-speed train has a speed range of 250 kilometers per hour.
Cars of the train will be divided from each other at Sirkeci Station on Wednesday, and will be carried to Haydarpasa Station with ferryboats, and then leave for Ankara.
High-speed train will start to carry passengers between Ankara and Eskisehir (a central Anatolian province) as of the first half of 2008. The travel time between Ankara and Eskisehir will reduce from three hours to 1 hour and 10 minutes.
The train costed 17.5 million Euro.