Transcaucasus Railway

The Transcaucasian Railway (Russian Закавказская железная дорога, georgian ტრანსკავკასიური რკინიგზა ) was a railway company in the Caucasus and on the territory of present-day Georgia, Armenia and parts of Azerbaijan. Formally, also the alternative name South Caucasian Railway Mainline (Georgian სამხრეთკავკასიური სარკინიგზო მაგისტრალი ) was used for this railway.

The main route first built through the Transcaucasian depression that extends between the Greater Caucasus and the Lesser Caucasus, the Georgian coast of the Black Sea in the west to the coast of the Caspian Sea in the east. In 1883 the line was completed. It connects the cities of Baku, Tbilisi and Poti each other.

The construction of the railway line began in the 1860s. 1871 was the first section between Poti and Zestaponi in operation. A year later, the portion of Zestaponi to Tbilisi followed. In 1883, the routes were Batumi - Samtredia and Baku- Jelissawetpol (now Ganja ) taken to Tbilisi in operation. Thus, the railway line was consistently passable for the first time from the ports of the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea. In 1902, the route from Tbilisi six years later was added to Yerevan, the extension to the Iranian border near Julfa.

In 1918 the name change followed in Georgian Railway for in the former Georgian Democratic Republic is located said path of travel section.