New Athos Cave Railway

[note 1] The line is a single track and electrified narrow gauge railway with a third rail.

It starts at the entrance of the caves, nearby Psyrtscha station of the Abkhazian railway.

Apsny station serves to lead the tourists at the beginnings of the show cave, and Anakopea to bring them back to the entrance gate, at the end of the tour.

The line counts a depot just before Entrance station, and a service tunnel between it and Apsny.

[1][2] (shesasvleli tchishkari) (ap'khazet'i) (t'bilisi) The railway has three power-concentrated battery electric multiple units built by the Railroad Machinery Plants of Riga in Latvia, including two Ep «Tourist» trains and the newly built Ep-563 train, and also the auxiliary mining battery-electric locomotive ARP8 which is used in case of malfunction of EMU's motor car.