Batumi Central ბათუმი ცენტრალი
General information
Location	Queen Tamar Highway,Batumi,Georgia
Coordinates	41°39′31″N41°40′39″E / 41.65861°N 41.67750°E /41.65861; 41.67750
System	Georgian Railway terminal
Owned by	Georgian Railway
Platforms	2
Tracks	7
History
Opened	2015
Location

Batumi Central (Georgian:ბათუმი ცენტრალი) is the railway station servingBatumi,Georgia. Despite its name, the station is located on the outskirts of the city, some 4 km away from the Old Town. The four-storey station building is combined with a bus terminal and a shopping centre, with the totalfloor area of 22,500 sq.m.

Batumi station was the original terminus of the Batumi-Tiflis-Baku railway, whose construction completed in 1900. The historic railway station was located in the very centre of Batumi, on Chavchavadze st. nearBatumi Cathedral of the Mother of God. It had one platform and three tracks,^[1] connected with a single-track running along Chavchavadze street to the freight station near the port, then further north-east.

In the 1990s, following the collapse of theSoviet Union,Georgian Railway was in decline, and the services to Batumi station ceased by the end of 1996.^[2] To make a better use of the lucrative land in the city centre, the tracks along Chavchavadze st. were lifted in 1999, and the line ended with abuffer stop on Mayakovsky st. The old railway station building stood abandoned until 2008, when it was taken over byTBC Bank for its main office in Batumi.^[2] When railway services to Batumi were renewed in the 2000s, they terminated atMakhinjauri station, over 6 km away from Batumi city centre.

The current station was opened on 5 July 2015,^{[citation needed]} and named Batumi Central to highlight its location within the city boundaries, unlike Makhinjauri station which was Batumi's only railway connection during the preceding decade.

As of 2018, Batumi Central has three daily long-distance services toTbilisi railway station, as well as slower trains toOzurgeti andKutaisi, one daily service to each of the two.^[3]

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