This will link new gas discoveries near the Afghan border, including South Yolotan-Osman which ranks among the largest in the world, with Caspian basin fields.

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The overnight train from Baku to the southern border town of Astara leaves at 11pm and makes its way slowly south, along the coast of the Caspian Sea.

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