Classic route
Baku–Ganja Express
Baku → Ganja · Azerbaijan
Baku–Ganja Express in pictures
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- Distance
- 363 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 4 h
- Average speed
- 91 km/h
- Top speed
- 160 km/h
- Operator
- Azerbaijan Railways (ADY)
- Train
- Stadler KISS
- Countries
- Azerbaijan
- In service since
- 2021
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Double-deck KISS EMUs since 2021, sprinting the Kura steppe to Azerbaijan’s second city: the quickest thing on rails between the Caspian and the Lesser Caucasus.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 17506963 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 5 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via Transitous: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of 38
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