Classic route
Tbilisi–Batumi Intercity
Tbilisi → Batumi · Georgia
Tbilisi–Batumi Intercity in pictures
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- Distance
- 378 km
- Fastest time
- 4 h 59 min
- Average speed
- 76 km/h
- Top speed
- 120 km/h
- Operator
- Georgian Railway
- Train
- Stadler KISS double-decker
- Countries
- Georgia
- In service since
- 2016
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Swiss double-deckers roll from the capital through Stalin’s Gori and the Imereti vineyards to palm-lined Batumi. Georgia crossed in five hours.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 14669013 — 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 6 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via Transitous: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of 812
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