Children's railway

Kolejka Parkowa Maltanka (Park Railway Maltanka) in Poznań, Poland (600 mm (1 ft 11 ⁵⁄₈ in) gauge).

Steam Locomotive on Kiev Children's Railway, Ukraine (750 mm (2 ft 5 ¹⁄₂ in) gauge).

A children's railway is an extracurricular educational institution, where teenagers learn railway professions. This phenomenon originated in the USSR and was greatly developed in Soviet times. The world's first children's railway was opened Moscow, in Gorky Park in 1932. At the breakup of the USSR, 52 children's railways existed in the country.

Many children's railways are still functioning in post-Soviet states and Eastern European countries. Examples include a children's railway in Minsk, one in Yaroslavl and many other cities.

List of children's railways

There are children's railways situated in following cities:

Armenia Yerevan Children's railway Belarus Children's Railroad (Minsk) Bulgaria Plovdiv China Harbin Georgia Tbilisi Germany Berliner Parkeisenbahn, Berlin, Wuhlheide Bernburg, Krumbholzallee Chemnitz, Küchwald Cottbus Eliaspark - Fürst-Pückler-Park Branitz Crispendorf, Ferienland Dresdner Parkeisenbahn, Dresden, Großer Garten Gera, Tierpark Görlitz, An der Landskronbrauerei Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Peißnitzinsel Leipziger Parkeisenbahn, Leipzig-Wahren, Auensee Magdeburg, Rotehornpark, until 1967 Plauen, Syratal Vatterode, Vatteröder Teich, out of operation Hungary Budapest Pécs Tiszakécske (suspended since 2009) Kazakhstan Almaty Karaganda Poland Silesian Culture and Recreation Park, Chorzów Park Railway Maltanka in Poznań (now run by the city) Slovakia Kindereisenbahn Košice, Košice Ukraine Dnipropetrovsk Donetsk Kharkiv Kiev Lutsk Lviv Rivne Zaporizhia Uzbekistan Tashkent

Russia Chelyabinsk Chita Ekaterinburg Irkutsk Kazan Khabarovsk Krasnoyarsk Kratovo Kurgan Nizhny Novgorod Novomoskovsk Novosibirsk Orenburg Penza Rostov-Na-Donu Sankt-Petersburg Svobodny Tyumen Ufa Vladikavkaz Volgograd Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Yaroslavl

See also

• Ridable miniature railway
• Backyard railroad
• Train ride
• Garden railway

External links

• Children's railways of the USSR (Russian)
• railways.id.ru (English)
• [1] (Hungarian)
• [2] (Hungarian)
• [3] (Hungarian)