Armenian Railways came into being as an administration in its own right on the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The network is built to the Russian standard gauge of 1520mm.
The network was privatised in 2008 and the concession awarded to South Caucasian Railway, a subsidiary of Russian Railways. The network as concessed consisted of 736 route km, with a further 110 route km currently unusable owing to a landslide. There is an international connection with Georgia. Connections with Azerbaijan and Turkey are presently closed.
