The railway came to Abkhazia in the early 1930s. In 1940, Abkhazian railway opened from Enguri to Sukhumi and then, in 1942, the Sukhumi — Adler line was opened.

In 1949, Abkhazian Railway became part of the Transcaucasian Railway. The current station building was built in the mid-1950s.

In the beginning of 1992 the following trains were passing Sukhumi:

• Moscow — Tbilisi
• Moscow — Tsqaltubo
• Moscow — Batumi
• Moscow — Sukhumi
• Moscow — Yerevan
• Rostov-on-Don — Yerevan
• Kyiv — Tbilisi
• St.Petersburg — Sukhumi
• Sochi — Yerevan

On 5 December 2002, on the bridge over the Psou river was the train Sukhumi — Sochi.^{[clarification needed]} In 2004, on the Abkhazian section of the railway (from Psou to Sukhumi) full-scale restoration work began, carried out by Russian construction companies. Train service was suspended during construction.^[2]

On 10 September 2004, Abkhazian railway the Sukhumi — Moscow train began operations.

• Moscow — Sukhumi^[3]
• St.Petersburg — Sukhumi
• Belgorod — Sukhumi

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  Tracks on the station
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  Station building
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  Station building
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  Moscow—Sukhumi train on platform 1
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  Station building

• Abkhazia Railways

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