The Trans-Caspian Railway

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The featured image for this article shows a train of oil-tanks on the Baku-Batoum Railway, part of the original Trans-Caspian network.

The original Trans-Caspian Railway is a historic, 19th-century railway built by the Russian Empire across Central Asia, stretching from Turkmenbashi (formerly Krasnovodsk) on the Caspian Sea to Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Today, it serves as the foundation for the modern Trans-Caspian International Transport Route (also known as the Middle Corridor).

This is the first of a short series of articles about the route. ...

 



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