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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
In 2018, passenger flow at the two main airports of Armenia reached a record high of 2,856,673 million people. [19] In December 2019, yearly passenger flow exceeded 3,000,000 million people for the first time in Armenia's history. [20] In November 2019, the creation of a Free Route Airspace (FRA) between Armenia and Georgia was announced.
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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.
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.