Chaschuri – whale railway line

Hashuri whales

Borjomi reception building

Route length:

91 km

Gauge :

1520 mm / 1524 mm

Power system :

3000 =

Legend

		Poti – Baku railway from Baku and Tbilisi
	0	Chashuri
		Railway line Poti – Baku to Poti
	10.1	Kvishcheti
	14.3	Akaldaba
	21.8	Kortaneti
	25.0	Wardgineti
	27.0	Kwibisi
		Borjomi – Bakuriani railway line
	30.1	Borjomi SATW.
	35.1	Borjomi Parki
	40.2	Larebi
	45.0	Chitachevi
	46.3	Tschibischewi
	47.8	Chitachevgezi
	52.2	Dwiri
	61.1	Tkemlana
	62.3	Atskuri
	67.0	Sikilia
	69.0	Agara
	70.3	Persa
	75.2	Zinsi
	83.4	Akhaltsikhe
	88.5	Suplizi
	91.1	Whales

The Chaschuri – Wale railway connects the Poti – Baku railway in Georgia with the health resort and seaside resort of Borjomi and also with Wale .

history

The section between Chaschuri and Borjomi went into operation in 1884 and was electrified in 1937 . The second section was the route to Wale in 1947 , which was provided with an overhead line in 1967 . The railway infrastructure and traffic on the line is now operated by the Georgian Railway, Sakartwelos Rkinigsa .

The Chaschuri – Wale railway is 91 kilometers long. It was built in the Russian broad gauge and is electrified with 3000 V direct current throughout .

business

Passenger traffic on the route only takes place from Chaschuri to Borjomi. There are continuous trains to and from Tbilisi . In Borjomi there is a narrow-gauge railway that continues to Bakuriani .

gallery

Chaschuri branch station
Borjomi station, track side
Monument in Borjomi

literature

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

Web links

Homepage of the Georgian Railways (Georgian, English, Russian).

Individual evidence

↑ Anatolij Archangelʹskij, Vladimir Archangelʹskij: Železnodorožnye stancii SSSR: Spravočnik . tape 1 . Transport, Moscow 1981, p. 80 ( USSR railway stations: manual ; Russian).
↑ G. Afonina: Kratkie svedenija o razvitii otečestvennych železnych dorog s 1838 po 1990 g. MPS, Moscow 1995, p. 174 ( Brief information on the development of the national railways from 1838 to 1990 ; Russian).
↑ Robinson, p. 15, plate 55.
^ Homepage of the Georgian Railway.

[1] Anatolij Archangelʹskij, Vladimir Archangelʹskij: Železnodorožnye stancii SSSR: Spravočnik . tape 1 . Transport, Moscow 1981, p. 80 ( USSR railway stations: manual ; Russian).

[2] G. Afonina: Kratkie svedenija o razvitii otečestvennych železnych dorog s 1838 po 1990 g. MPS, Moscow 1995, p. 174 ( Brief information on the development of the national railways from 1838 to 1990 ; Russian).

[3] Robinson, p. 15, plate 55.

[4] Homepage of the Georgian Railway.