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==(Tbilisi - Marabda -) Kartsakhi RK - border (- Mezra - Kars) TCDD==
==(Tbilisi - Marabda - Akhalkalaki -) Kartsakhi RK - Karakale TCDD (- Mezra - Kars)==
[D] Construction started in 2008 of a 105 km line between a junction east of Akhalkalaki (RK) and Mezra (TCDD), 13 km east of Kars - 29 km in Georgia and 76 km in Turkey. The line will be 1435 mm gauge, with gauge change facilities near Akhalkalaki.
[D] This 105 km, 1435 mm gauge line runs from a junction east of Akhalkalaki (RK) to Mezra (TCDD), 13 km east of Kars. 29 km are in Georgia and 76 km in Turkey. There are gauge changing facilities near Akhalkalaki. It reestablishes a rail link between Azerbaijan and Turkey through Georgia following closure of the (Kars -) Dogukapi - Ahuryan (- Tbilisi) line in July 1993, when Turkey closed its border with Armenia.
 
The line was ceremonially opened on 30 October 2017. Freight services carrying containers started the following day. The first through freight, changing bogies at Akhalkalaki, ran on 26 June 2018. Through passenger services are now expected to start in August 2019.
The project was originally to be completed by 2010 but is now delayed to at least 2014, owing to "complex terrain in some regions of Georgia". Its purpose is to reestablish a rail link between Azerbaijan and Turkey through Georgia following closure of the (Kars -) Dogukapi - Ahuryan (- Tbilisi) line in July 1993, when Turkey closed its border with Armenia.


== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[Georgia]]
* [[Turkey]]
* [[Border Crossings - General Information]]
* [[Border Crossings - General Information]]



Revision as of 10:02, 29 June 2019

(Tbilisi - Marabda - Akhalkalaki -) Kartsakhi RK - Karakale TCDD (- Mezra - Kars)

[D] This 105 km, 1435 mm gauge line runs from a junction east of Akhalkalaki (RK) to Mezra (TCDD), 13 km east of Kars. 29 km are in Georgia and 76 km in Turkey. There are gauge changing facilities near Akhalkalaki. It reestablishes a rail link between Azerbaijan and Turkey through Georgia following closure of the (Kars -) Dogukapi - Ahuryan (- Tbilisi) line in July 1993, when Turkey closed its border with Armenia. The line was ceremonially opened on 30 October 2017. Freight services carrying containers started the following day. The first through freight, changing bogies at Akhalkalaki, ran on 26 June 2018. Through passenger services are now expected to start in August 2019.

See also