Transcaucasian Railway

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Transcaucasian Railway ( Russian Закавказская железная дорога , Georgian ტრანსკავკასიური რკინიგზა ) refers to railway companies that were active in what is now Georgia , Azerbaijan and Armenia . The route network operated by them was also called the Transcaucasian Railway .

Collective bond of the Transcaucasus Railway Company dated April 23, 1882
Main line of the Transcaucasian Railway from Batumi to Baku
Branch lines of the Transcaucasian Railway in Georgia , 1967

history

Russian Empire

The first railway company to operate here was privately organized. In 1871 the Poti-Tbilisi Railway Company ( Russian Поти-Тифлисской Железной Дороги ) was founded. Its most important railway line was the Batumi / Poti – Tiflis – Baku connection . This company went into 1883 in the Transcaucasian Railway ( Russian Закавказской железной дорога ). The Transcaucasian Railway was nationalized in 1889 , but the name was retained ( Imperial Russian Transcaucasian State Railway ). On December 1, 1899, the Transcaucasian Railway took over the Tbilisi-Karsk Railway.

Soviet Union

The railways in the Soviet Union were divided into relatively independent "railroad directorates" under the roof of the Soviet Railways (SŽD / СЖД). The "Railway Directorate" responsible for the area south of the Greater Caucasus adopted the name "Transcaucasian Railway".

Since 1991

After the collapse of the Soviet Union , the railroad lines were divided among the successor states of the Soviet Union . The routes in Georgia were acquired by the Georgian Railway . The route in Abkhazia went to the Abkhazian Railway and was taken over by the Russian Railway in 2009 . The routes in Azerbaijan and Nakhichevan went to the Azerbaijani Railway , and the lines in Armenia to the Armenian Railway .

literature

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Robinson, p. 13.
  2. ^ Victor von Röll: Encyclopedia of the Railway System . Volume 8. Keyword: Russian railways . Berlin, Vienna 1917, pp. 256-278.
  3. ↑ Robinson, p. 64.
  4. ↑ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (Ed.): Collection of the published official gazettes of March 17, 1900. Volume 4, No. 13. Announcement No. 108, p. 91.
  5. ↑ Robinson, p. 14.