sentences:  By 1899, a branch line (Kars–Gyumri–Tbilisi railway) from Tbilisi to Marabda to Gyumri (then Alexandropol) to Kars was completed.Due to the poor state of relations between Armenia and Turkey this branch line has been abandoned.In 1986, the construction of a branch railway line from Marabda (on the Tbilisi-Gyumri line, south of Tbilisi Junction) west to Akhalkalaki was completed.