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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]
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.
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
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 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 ...
The 845 km (525 mi), 1,520 mm (4 ft 11 + 27 ⁄ 32 in) gauge network is electrified at 3 kV DC.Now the railways in Armenia are operated by South Caucasus Railway of Russian Railways.
The tracks in Georgia were acquired by the Georgian Railways LLC, although the tracks in Abkhazia were taken over by the Abkhazian railway (this company was later absorbed by the Georgian railways). The tracks in Azerbaijan and Nakhchivan were taken over by the Azerbaijan State Railway and the tracks in Armenia were taken over by the Armenian ...
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.