Akhalkalaki station
The Akhalkalaki station is the Georgian border and lane-changing station on the railway line Kars-Akhalkalaki-Tbilisi .
Geographical location
Akhalkalaki train station is 8 km south of the city Akhalkalaki in open terrain on the railway line from Kars to Tbilisi at an altitude of 1,820 m. The section of the line that originally led into the city was closed and dismantled.
business
The station has a length of around 2 km, was built with the new Kars – Achalkalaki line and - although the construction was not yet completed - was in operation in March 2019. It is used in both freight and passenger transport. For the latter, however, exclusively through the international long-distance train Baku - Turkey of the Azerbaijan Railway .
Investments
The automatic lane change system is used by the international Baku – Turkey long-distance train. It is required in order to be able to change gauges between the Russian broad gauge used in Georgia and the standard gauge used in Turkey . The track of the line west of the station has only standard gauge. For goods wagons that can be re-tracked, there is a conventional system for exchanging the bogies , in which 14 wagons can be handled at the same time. There are sidings for bogies on both sides of the hall . In container traffic , the containers are moved by a gantry crane onto freight wagons of the corresponding other gauge . The station building has a house platform and an island platform that serve two tracks.
literature
- Jürgen Zbinden: The transfer of the first Stadler sleeper train to Azerbaijan - Part 3. In: Eisenbahn-Revue International 1/2020, pp. 20-23.
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 41 ° 19 ′ 23.2 " N , 43 ° 30 ′ 49" E