BAKU, Azerbaijan, September 4. Azerbaijan Railways CJSC (ADY), one of the AZCON Holding companies, transported 12 percent more passengers on domestic routes and the Absheron circular railway in August 2025 compared to the same month last year.
The data obtained by Trend from the CJSC shows that the aggregate passenger mobility metric for the first eight months of the current fiscal year surpassed the benchmarks established during the analogous timeframe of the previous year by a margin of 20 percent.
Azerbaijan Railways is the state-owned national rail transport provider in the Republic of Azerbaijan. The 2,918 km (1,813 mi) network, with a 1,520 mm gauge, is electrified at three kV (3,000 V) DC. The Azerbaijan Railways headquarters is located in the capital, Baku. The inaugural railway line in Azerbaijan was constructed in 1878 and inaugurated in 1880 in the outskirts of Baku. The railway comprises 176 stations, of which Bilajari (in Baku) and Shirvan are fully automated. As many as 12 stations include container courts equipped with specialized mechanisms and machinery, while three stations—Keshla (in Baku), Ganja, and Khirdalan—are capable of handling high freight containers. In conjunction with the Kars–Tbilisi–Baku railway, a regional rail link project that has directly connected Türkiye, Georgia, and Azerbaijan since 2017, Azerbaijan is modernizing its railway lines with new high-speed rolling stock to replace the outdated equipment.
