Our plan for the day was to get a metro service to the coach station where we were going to cross the border into Armenia and then spend a few days in Yerevan. I love metro networks and this is Rustaveli station which opened in 1966.
There was a 120 metre long wooden escalator down to the platform and these are 60 metres underground, one of the deepest metro stations in Europe.
Down we go.
This reminded me of the Russian metro network where they had a staff member sitting down at the bottom looking up at the escalators.
It’s quite a Russian style metro station, but it’s spacious and functional.
The platform.
Here comes the train, which was moderately busy.
Safely into Isani metro station, which was opened in 1971.
A very pleasant journey and it was positive to see another metro system, I’m always overly excited by this. It was a cheap journey and you buy a card to use the network, which can be paid for either by card or cash.
This is the original dome and exterior of the Isani metro station, some 1970s modernist architecture. We then just a ten minute walk to get to where our bus was going to go from.