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The railway assets of Georgia were formed into the new 100% government-owned company The Georgian Railway LLC – the biggest employer in the country (12,700 employees), which operates under the public law of the Enterprise Management Agency, part of the Ministry of Economic Development. It is charged with both management and maintenance of the ...
The Baku–Tbilisi–Kars (BTK), or Baku–Tbilisi–Akhalkalaki–Kars railway (BTAK), is a railway connecting Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey, which became operational on 30 October 2017 following several years of delays. [2] The project was originally due to be completed by 2010, [3] but was delayed to 2013, [4] 2015, [5] 2016, [6] and ...
The Saburtalo Line (Georgian: საბურთალოს ხაზი, romanized: saburtalos khazi) is a line of the Tbilisi Metro in Georgia.The line was first opened in 1979, [1] running originally from Station Square, where Tbilisi Central Railway station is located to Delisi and has since extended to the western residential districts of the city, near Tbilisi State University’s X and ...
Railways. Georgian Railway Network. Stadler KISS GRS «Eurasia» passenger train. total: 1,683 km in common carrier service; does not include industrial lines. broad gauge: 1,583 km of 1,520 mm (4 ft 1127⁄32 in) gauge (1993) narrow gauge: 100 km of 914 mm (3 ft) gauge. City with metro system: Tbilisi (see Tbilisi Metro).
Tbilisi Railway station is the central railway station of Tbilisi with an adjacent shopping mall. The first central station in Tbilisi was built in 1872, with trains to the black sea port of Poti. In the 1940s the building was demolished and replaced with a building in the style of the Stalinist architecture. In the early 1980s the building was ...
As of 2018, due to the State University (Tbilisi Metro) extension, a new digital signaling system was installed by Siemens, controlling 2.6 km of track and three interlockings, [24] from Delisi to State University (Tbilisi Metro), which is the only segment in the network containing signaling systems from the post-Soviet era.
The Kukushka (Russian for "little cuckoo") is a 37.2 kilometres (23.1 mi) long narrow-gauge railway line linking the town of Borjomi (820 m asl) to the daba and ski resort of Bakuriani (1,700 m asl) in Georgia. The construction of this 900 mm (2 ft 117⁄16 in) line began in 1897, when Georgia was still part of the Russian Empire.
A standard-gauge railway is a railway with a track gauge of 1,435 mm (4 ft 81⁄2 in). The standard gauge is also called Stephenson gauge (after George Stephenson), international gauge, UIC gauge, uniform gauge, normal gauge in Europe, [1][2][3][4][5] and SGR in East Africa. It is the most widely used track gauge around the world, with about 55 ...