Just ten years ago, a non-stop freight train from fringes of Asia into the core of Europe may have sounded like an odd twist of historical fiction or even a really dumb idea, but in today’s context – ...

Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan arrives to test-drive a train as he attends the opening ceremony of the Marmaray railway. EPA ISTANBUL — Turkey has opened an underwater railway tunnel linking Europe ...

On the first day of functioning, the number of passengers travelling through the Marmaray tunnel exceeded 300,000, Anadolu agency reported on Thursday. According to the agency, it was expected that ...

The Marmaray tunnel in Istanbul will be officially opened on 28 October 2013, by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the Turkish Prime Minister. This historical tunnel project under the Bosporus will directly ...

For its 90th birthday, the Turkish state Tuesday gave itself and its citizens a fine present: a brand-new commuter rail tunnel that runs under the Bosphorus and links Istanbul's European and Asian ...

Editor’s Note: John Defterios is CNN’s Emerging Markets Editor and anchor of Global Exchange. Follow him on Twitter. As a country, Turkey is often described as a bridge between Europe and Asia. On ...

It is now possible to cross the Bosphorus Strait – from Asia to Europe in just four minutes by the new Marmaray tunnel. It is the realisation of a project dreamt up by Ottoman sultans more than a ...

UpRight lifts are helping to maintain railway stations on a major new transport infrastructure project in Turkey. The Marmaray Project is a metro system connecting two continents, joining together the ...

Two Japanese technicians walk inside a train for the inauguration of the tunnel called Marmaray in Istanbul, Turkey, Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2013. Turkey is for the first time connecting its European and ...

The Gateway goes behind the scenes of the world’s major transport hubs, revealing the logistics that keep goods and people moving. This month, the show is in Istanbul, Turkey. As a city that sits ...