The first section of the Istanbul-Ankara high-speed line opened in March 2009, and air-conditioned 250 km/h high-speed trains (YHT, Yüksek Hızlı Treni in Turkish) now link Eskişehir with Ankara, see the photos & video above. The rest of the high-speed line is currently in an advanced state of construction. The plan is that by February or March 2014, high-speed trains will start running between Ankara and a station called Pendik, 25km east of Istanbul, and a couple of years later trains are due to start running between Ankara and central Istanbul via the new Bosphorus rail tunnel, taking just 3 hours.