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The railway was built in the late 19th century, when Georgia and Armenia, as well as the recently conquered Kars Oblast, all were parts of the Russian Empire.By the late 1880s, the railway system of Russian Transcaucasia consisted of the mainline from Poti and Batumi on the Black Sea to Tiflis (now Tbilisi) to Baku on the Caspian Sea, run by the Transcaucasian Railway.
The Baku–Tbilisi–Kars project was intended to provide a rail corridor linking Azerbaijan to Turkey via Georgia whilst avoiding Armenia, following the closure of the Kars–Gyumri–Tbilisi railway in 1993, as a result of the first Nagorno-Karabakh War. The project also provided an additional rail route between China and Europe (via Central ...
In 1899, the Kars–Gyumri–Tbilisi railway connection between Georgia and Armenia was established. [2] The Khashuri to Borjomi link was built in 1894, with the 900 mm (2 ft 11 + 7 ⁄ 16 in) Borjomi to Bakuriani narrow-gauge line operational from 1902, to serve the higher level skiing community. The Kakheti railway branch line was completed ...
South Caucasus Railway currently operates the following services: [2] 1. Armenia–Georgia express/sleeper service: Yerevan to Tbilisi / Batumi via Gyumri and Vanadzor [3] [4] 2. Yerevan to Araks (Myasnikan) / Gyumri - 3 services a day plus 1 additional short journey to Araks, and a weekend express service (without stops between Yerevan and Gyumri
From neighboring Georgia, trains depart to Yerevan from Tbilisi railway station. [2] Within Armenia, new electric trains connect passengers from Yerevan to Armenia's second-largest city of Gyumri. The new trains run four times a day and the journey takes approximately two hours. [3]
Railway coach of the South Caucasus Railway at Yerevan railway station. In 2007, the government of Armenia conducted a tender process for the modernization and operation of Armenian Railways, with the intention of awarding a concession in 2008.
Abkhazia and Russia signed a protocol on repairing the Abkhazian stretch in October 1995, [14] but Georgia has long tied the restoration of rail traffic with the return of refugees to Abkhazia. Negotiations to restore the railway link between Georgia and Abkhazia were held in 2004-2005, but ultimately stalled. [15]
Turkey - open - link to Turkey with break-of-gauge 1,520 mm (4 ft 11 + 27 ⁄ 32 in) - 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) from Georgia is opened on 30 October 2017. See Kars–Tbilisi–Baku railway. Armenia - closed - 1,520 mm (4 ft 11 + 27 ⁄ 32 in) gauge - closed because of the ongoing Nagorno-Karabakh conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan.