Azerbaijan 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 lines serving the country largely radiate out of the capital Bakı (Baku). There are international connections with Russia, Iran and Georgia. Connections with Armenia are presently closed. There are no railways currently opearting in the disputed area of Nagorno-Karabakh, the Armenian occupied corrridor between Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh, nor the isolated Azerbaijani enclave of Naxçivan.
