Children's railway
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A children's railway or pioneer railway is an extracurricular educational institution, where children interested in rail transport can 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 in Gorky Park, Moscow,[1] 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. Many feature railway technology not seen anymore on the main lines and can be considered heritage railways. Though few exceptions exist, most children's railways built in the Eastern Bloc have a track gauge of at least Template:RailGauge[2] and can carry full size narrow gauge rolling stock.
List of children's railways
Armenia
Azerbaijan
- Baku Children's Railway (nem üzemel)
Belarus
Bulgaria
China
Cuba
- Camagüey, Parque Camilo Cienfuegos
- Havana, Parque Lenin (not operating)
- Havana, Havana Zoo
Georgia
Germany
- Template:Ill,[4] Berlin, Wuhlheide
- Template:Ill, Bernburg, Krumbholzallee
- Parkeisenbahn Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Küchwald – Park
- Template:Ill, Cottbus, Eliaspark – Spreeauenpark
- Template:Ill, Crispendorf, Ferienland
- Dresdner Parkeisenbahn, Dresden, Großer Garten
- Template:Ill,[5] Gera, Tierpark
- Template:Ill,[6] Görlitz, An der Landskronbrauerei
- Template:Ill,[7] Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Peißnitzinsel
- Leipziger Parkeisenbahn, Leipzig-Wahren, Auensee
- Template:Ill Magdeburg, Rotehornpark, until 1967
- Template:Ill,[8] Plauen, Syratal
- Template:Ill, Vatterode, Vatteröder Teich
Hungary
- Budapest Children's Railway
- Mecseki narrow gauge railway, Pécs
- Széchenyi Railway Museum, Nagycenk
- Template:Ill
Kazakhstan
- Alma-Ata Children's Railway, Almaty
- Karaganda Children's Railway, Karaganda
- Shymkent Children's Railway, Shymkent
closed railways:
- Aktobe
- Arkalyk
- Atbasar
- Ekibastuz
- Kokshetau Children's Railway
- Kostanay
- Astana
- Pavlodar
- Semey
- Schuchinsk
- Zhezkazgan
Poland
- Silesian Culture and Recreation Park, Chorzów
- Park Railway Maltanka, Poznań (now run by the city)
Russia
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- Chelyabinsk
- Chita
- Ekaterinburg
- Irkutsk
- Kazan
- Kemerovo
- Far East Children's Railway, Khabarovsk
- Krasnoyarsk
- Kratovo
- Kurgan
- Liski
- Nizhny Novgorod
- Novomoskovsk
- Small West Siberian Railway, Novosibirsk
- Orenburg
- Penza
- Rostov-Na-Donu
- Sankt-Petersburg, Malaya Oktyabrskaya railway
- Svobodny
- Tyumen
- Ufa
- Vladikavkaz
- Volgograd
- Children's Railway Sakhalin, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
- Yaroslavl
Slovakia
Slovenia
Turkey
- Gençlik Parkı (not operating)
- Ali Çetinkaya railway station (not operating)
- Kültürpark (not operating)
Turkmenistan
Ukraine
United Kingdom
Uzbekistan
See also
References
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External links
- Children's railways of the USSR Template:In lang
- Children's Railways of the former USSR Template:In lang
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