Its first stop is in Alpullu then Pehlivanköy, where the line branches off the rail line to Greece and heads north-west to Edirne.
This became a problem for Greek and Turkish rail service, so in 1971, the Turkish State Railways built a cut off line known as the Edirne Cut-off from Pehlivanköy up the Turkish Greek border to Edirne and built the line through the city and further northwest to Bulgaria.
In 1971, the State railways built a new line from Pehlivanköy to the Bulgarian border at Kapıkule.
The line was used by the Greek State Railways (OSE) until 1971 when the Turkish State Railways (TCDD) built a line from Pehlivanköy through the city of Edirne to the Bulgarian border, and OSE built a short cut-off between Marasia and Nea Vyssa to avoid Turkish territory near Edirne.