Brozeula – Zqaltubo railway line

Brozeula – Zqaltubo
4E10 1230 south of Kutaisi-2 on the way to Kutaisi-1 (2015)
Route length:	23 km
Gauge :	1520 mm / 1524 mm
Power system :	3000  =
Legend Poti – Baku railway from Tbilisi 0.0 Brozeula Poti – Baku railway line to Poti and Batumi 2.5 Mesheti 8.1 Kutaisi 2 12.0 Kilometer 12 17.0 Kilometer 17 21.0 0.0 Ternali 5.0 Gumbra 23.0 Zqaltubo The route table only names operating locations with names. There are individual further breakpoints.

The Brozeula – Zqaltubo railway branches off in a northerly direction from the Georgian railroad , the Poti – Baku railway line , and ends in Zqaltubo .

history

The route is 23 kilometers long. It was built in the Russian broad gauge , went into operation in 1935 and was continuously electrified with 3000 V direct current in 1953 . Until the renovation of the Kutaisi-1 station ( Kutaisi Tschawtschawadsis Kutscha ) on the Rioni – Tqibuli railway line in 2010, a large part of the trains going to Kutaisi ended at Kutaisi-2 station. Since then, Kutaisi-2 station has only been served by four pairs of trains a day to Tskaltubo, one of which is connected to Kutaisi-1 via Brozeula – Rioni (the Poti – Baku railway line). There is no other rail connection with Kutaisi-1. After branching off from the Poti – Baku railway line, the two railway lines no longer have a track connection with each other. Both stretches are at least two kilometers apart and the Rioni River lies between them .

See also

Notes on the gauge: gauge (railway), measurement method of the Russian gauge or Russian broad gauge .

literature

• Neil Robinson: World Rail Atlas . Vol. 8: The Middle East and Caucasus . 2006. ISBN 954-12-0128-8 .

Web links

• Homepage of the Georgian Railway (en, ka, ru).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Robinson, p. 15, plate 55.
2. ↑ Timetable of local trains on the Sakartwelos Rkinigsa side