Creation of the State Railway of Azerbaijan dates back to January 20, 1880.

Baku-Sabunchu, the first railway in Azerbaijan, was designed only for the transportation of oil and extended to 20 kilometers.

The Baku-Tiflis railway extending to 550 kilometers was commissioned on May 8, 1883 and the Derbend-Bilajari railway extending to 231 kilometers in 1900.

The State Railway of Azerbaijan was one of the oldest iron highways of the former Soviet Union and the railwaymen of Azerbaijan overcame all the difficulties successfully during the Great Patriotic War. They supplied the Red Army with fuel and oil products and sent 1 million 300 thousand including 600 thousand cisterns load of fuel to the front.

The length of railway in Azerbaijan is 2944.3 kilometers including 2122 kilometers of operated roads.

1277,1 kilometers of the road or 60% of total length is equipped with electric.

The total volume of cargo transportations in frame of TRACECA was 7327,6 thousand tons.

The State Railway of Azerbaijan includes:

-Office Apparatus

-Transportation Processes Management Unit

-Passenger Transportation Production Unit

-Lokomotiv Production Unit

-Vagon Servis Production Unit

-Road Production Unit

-Power Supply Production Unit

-Sign Giving and Communication Production Unit

-Logistics Unit

-Militarized Protection Economy

-The Nakhchyvan Sector

-Computing Center

-Printing

-Railway Means Support Enterprise

-Lokomotiv Health and Sport Center

-Administration for enterprises under construction

-Road Health Service

-Road Worker Supply Unit

-Tariff and Transport Service

-Water Supply and Hygiene Equipment Division

-Technical Administrative Buildings Exploitation Enterprise.

The State Railway of Azerbaijan is supplied with power via technical equipments, contact net and traction substations.

Electrification of the State Railway of Azerbaijan was realized in 1969-1999.

All railway stations, enterprises and organizations possess safe power supply.

Optic communication line is supposed to be built between Yalama (Russian frontier) and Astara (Iranian frontier) stations in frame of North-South Transport Corridor.

The Nakhchyvan Sector keeps operating in blockade despite disconnection from the total railway network of the republic as result of the separatist policy of Armenia.

The Sector carries out cargo and passenger transportations within the Autonomous Republic and with Iran.

Nakhchyvan-Tehran passenger train functions by schedule.

7 restoring trains, means and forces of which are in big stations and depots as a rule, operate at the State Railway of Azerbaijan to effectively remove consequences of man-caused situations and natural disasters.