North-Caucasian Railway has launched a rail bus.

As news agency REGNUM in the service of the Public Relations SKZHD, the new route opened the day before the Day of the railway.

Rail bus will run 3 times a week: on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. The trip takes little more than 3.5 hours. Of Rostova train goes to 6.00, the stop provided at the stations and Starominskaya Staroscherbinovskaya. In Eisk he arrived at 9.47. Of Eyska administration - at 19.47, arrival in Rostov - in 23.40.

rail bus tickets sold at the suburban railway station in Rostov.

fare from station to station Rostov Eisk is 135 rubles. Passage in the bus because the same route is 166 rubles, a trip takes 4 hours and 30 minutes.

Information Service of Public Relations SKZHD, from 2005 to go 4 SKZHD rail bus. Three of them are working in the Rostov region and the 1 - at the Lincoln - Gudermes in the Chechen Republic. Earlier, there used conventional passenger cars and locomotives.

In July 2006, the park has doubled SKZHD rail buses RA1 worth 27 million rubles each.

For the little time they have proven to be economically viable: bus fuel consumption is almost 15 times less than the locomotive.

It is reliable and easy to maintain.

soon to SKZHD to reach a new model of rail bus - RA2. This trehvagonnaya machine, consisting of two parent and one trailing the car will be equipped biotualetami. Cruising range, without refueling - 800 kilometers at a speed of 120 kilometers per hour.