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By train and steamer in the Caucasus in 1914 and 1939

Timetables for the region on the eve of the First and Second World Wars





An advertisement for Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen's Caucasus routes, 1911




NOTE:

These timetables are photographs of reprints (both with an introduction by J.H. Price) of the original timetables—viz. the August 1914 edition of Bradshaw's Continental Guide (Newton Abbott: David & Charles, 1972; originally London & Manchester: Henry Blacklock & Co., 1914), and the 1939 edition of Cook's Continental Timetable (Newton Abbott: David & Charles, 1987; originally London: Thomas Cook, 1939).




VLADIKAVKAS—BAKU (1914)


Timetable of trains running between Vladikavkas and Baku via Beslan, Groznyi, Petrovsk, Derbent and Baladschary:






VLADIKAVKAS—TIFLIS (1914)


Timetable of "motor car services" running between Vladikavkas and Tiflis:






BATOUM—BAKU (1914)


Timetable of trains running between Batoum and Baku via Samtredi, Rion, Kutais, Kvirily, Sharopan, Michailovo, Gori, Tiflis, Akstafa, Elisavetpol, Udshary and Adshi-Kabul, with branch lines Michailovo-Borshom, Poti-Samtredi, Sharopan-Sachkeri, Borshom-Bakuriani and Baku-Surachany:






MOSCOW—BAKU, BAKU—BATUMI, &c. (1939)


Timetable of trains running between Moscow and Baku via Kharkov and Rostov; between Baku and Batumi via Tbilisi; and between Tbilisi and Dzhulfa via Yerevan, as well as timetable of automobile services between Ordzhonikidze and Tbilisi:







CASPIAN & BLACK SEA STEAMER SERVICES


Timetable of Black Sea and Caspian steamer services (1914):




Timetable of Black Sea steamer services (1939):