Classic route
Baku–Tbilisi–Kars
Baku → Kars · Azerbaijan · Georgia · Türkiye
- Distance
- 826 km
- Fastest time
- 18 h
- Average speed
- 46 km/h
- Top speed
- 100 km/h
- Operator
- ADY · Georgian Railway · TCDD
- Train
- Stadler sleeper cars
- Countries
- Azerbaijan, Georgia, Türkiye
- In service since
- 2017
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The Silk Road revived: opened in 2017, it closes the last gap from the Caspian across the Caucasus to Turkey, a rail bridge between Asia and Europe.
How this line was checked
- The 543 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 20705812 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 96.6% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 6 m); the longest stretch away from it is 7 km
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: ADY · Georgian Railway · TCDD — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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