TÖRÖKBÁLINT TO KHACHMAZ BY TRAIN
Travel from Törökbálint (Hungary) to Khachmaz (Azerbaijan) by train (2447 km): schedule and information to the train connection. Compare fares and buy your ticket.
To travel by train from Törökbálint in Hungary to Khachmaz in Azerbaijan, the main route leads via Romania and Turkey. Please read the following information and blog posts.
Your travel route could be like that.
1 Törökbálint (Hungary) - Bucharest (Romania) - Istanbul (Turkey) - Kars (Turkey) - Batumi (Georgia) - Khachmaz (Azerbaijan)2447 km
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1 | Törökbálint (Hungary) - Bucharest (Romania) - Istanbul (Turkey) - Kars (Turkey) - Batumi (Georgia) - Khachmaz (Azerbaijan) |
1A | Travelling from Törökbálint (Hungary) to Bucharest (Romania) |
International services run mainly from Budapest via the Lököshaza/Curtici border crossing to Arad and from there either to Timisoara and onwards to Craiova and Bucharest or via Simeria - Sibiu/Sighisoara - Brasov to Bucharest. Additional international express trains run via the Biharkresztes/Episcopia Bihor border crossing to Oradea - Cluj Napoca - Brasov.
Buy the train ticket at a railway station. Note: in some countries you have to pay a service fee at the ticket counter. The ticket can be purchased at a station in the country of departure, also sometimes in other countries.
InterCity (IC) / Györsvonat (G)
NIGHT TRAINS: Night trains that might be suitable for this trip.
EN 473 Budapest - Bucharest / IC 79/1696 Budapest - Bucharest / IC 407 Budapest - Brașov / EN 347 Vienna - Bucharest
SEARCH FOR TRAIN TIMES HERE: Online timetable information, on which you can find relevant, up-to-date connections. rail.cc / Deutsche Bahn / MAV Hungary |
1B | Travelling from Bucharest (Romania) to Istanbul (Turkey) |
The only direct rail connection between the two countries is the line via Bulgaria and the Svilengrad/Kapikule border crossing to Istanbul. Currently the night train from Bucharest and Sofia to Istanbul is the only service across the border.
In addition to this night train there are many bus connections available. These buses are quicker if you are travelling for example from Burgas (Bulgaria) to Istanbul.
Buy the train ticket at a railway station. Note: in some countries you have to pay a service fee at the ticket counter. The ticket can be purchased at a station in the country of departure, also sometimes in other countries.
Bosfor Bucharest - Istanbul / D 493 Sofia - Istanbul
SEARCH FOR TRAIN TIMES HERE: Online timetable information, on which you can find relevant, up-to-date connections. rail.cc / Deutsche Bahn |
1C | Travelling from Istanbul to Kars (Turkey) |
Buy the train ticket at a railway station. Note: in some countries you have to pay a service fee at the ticket counter. The ticket can be purchased at a station in the country of departure, also sometimes in other countries.
Standard (TCDD) / Optima Express (OPEX)
NIGHT TRAINS: Night trains that might be suitable for this trip.
Bosfor Istanbul - Bucharest / D 81032 Istanbul - Sofia
BUS: Bus connections that might be helpful.
Istanbul - Thessaloniki / Istanbul - Athens
SEARCH FOR TRAIN TIMES HERE: Online timetable information, on which you can find relevant, up-to-date connections. rail.cc / Deutsche Bahn |
1C | Travelling from Kars (Turkey) to Batumi (Georgia) |
One bus line is from Trabzon (Turkey) to Batumi (Georgia). At least four connections daily for about EUR 15. From Istanbul (Turkey) to Batumi (Georgia) at least two connections daily for about EUR 25.
Trabzon (Turkey) is not connected to the railway network of Turkey. Therefore the easiest way is to take a bus directly from Istanbul or Ankara (Turkey) to Batumi (Georgia). Buy your bus ticket for Metro Turizm online.
An other option is to travel by train from Istanbul and Ankara to Kars (Turkey). And from Kars (Turkey) to Batumi (Georgia) by bus.
In Batumi (Georgia) change to a train to continue to Tbilisi (Georgia).
Border crossing is currently: you leave the bus with the luggage before the border, cross the border by foot (easy) and after the border the bus picks you up again.
In future there will be a train connection from Turkey to Georgia. But it is still under construction.
Buy your ticket at the bus station or at the website of the bus company.
Trabzon - Batumi / Batumi - Trabzon
1D | Travelling from Batumi (Georgia) to Khachmaz (Azerbaijan) |
There is one daily overnight train from Tbilisi (Georgia) to Baku (Azerbaijan).
Buy the train ticket at a railway station. Note: in some countries you have to pay a service fee at the ticket counter. The ticket can be purchased at a station in the country of departure, also sometimes in other countries.

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