AR for first time begins passenger transportation by high-speed train on Baku-Agstafa-Baku route

Baku/10.03.23/Turan: Starting from 18 March "Azerbaijan Railways" JSC (AR) will extend Baku-Ganja-Baku high speed train route to Agstafa station and for the first time will carry passengers on Baku-Agstafa-Baku high speed train route.

"If before the pandemic of coronavirus COVID-19 (March 2020) passengers were transported from Baku to Agstafa by a passenger train which ran for 8 hours, now this distance of 459 km will be covered in 4 hours 55 minutes," the AR said.

Note that the high-speed passenger train will depart from Baku daily at 08:45 and arrive at Agstafa station at 13:40. On the route Aghstafa - Baku train will depart daily at 17:10 and arrive at the Baku station at 22:05. The average speed of the high speed passenger train on the relevant route will be 100 km/hour.

The cost of travel from Baku to Agstafa is 17 manats for standard class and 16 manats for the Baku-Tovuz route.

At that, the Baku-Agstafa-Baku route will be served by a four-car double-decker high-speed passenger train manufactured by the Swiss "Stadler Rail Group". Total passenger capacity of the train is 364 seats. -08B-