children's railway
{{Short description|Railway operated by children with adult supervision for educational purposes}}
{{Hatnote|This article is about educational railways run by children. For small trains suited for children, see Train ride. For other uses, see Children's Railway (disambiguation)}}
Image:Maltanka RB1.JPG, Poland ({{RailGauge|600mm|lk=on}} gauge).]]
Image:AX Steam Loco Gr336 Kiev ChRW.jpg Children's Railway, Ukraine, {{RailGauge|750mm|lk=on}} gauge.]]
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,[http://www.dzd-ussr.ru/towns/moscow/cpkio.html Children's railways: Gorky Park, Moscow] {{in lang|ru}} 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 {{RailGauge|600mm|lk=on}}:de:Pioniereisenbahn and can carry full size narrow gauge rolling stock.
List of children's railways
=Armenia=
=Azerbaijan=
- Baku Children's Railway (nem üzemel)
=Belarus=
=Bulgaria=
- Plovdiv{{cite web|url=http://web.railfriends.org/EN/Childrens%20Railway/index.htm |title=Cildren's Railroad "Zname na mira" in Plovdiv |accessdate=2007-11-12 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20071215230848/http://web.railfriends.org/EN/Childrens%20Railway/index.htm |archivedate=2007-12-15 }}
- Kardzhali
=China=
=Cuba=
- Camagüey, Parque Camilo Cienfuegos
- Havana, Parque Lenin (not operating)
- Havana, Havana Zoo
=Georgia=
=Germany=
- {{ill|Parkeisenbahn Wuhlheide|de|Berliner Parkeisenbahn}},{{cite web|url=http://www.parkeisenbahn.de/BPE/|title=Berliner Parkeisenbahn &ndash, Fahrplan|website=www.parkeisenbahn.de}} Berlin, Wuhlheide
- {{ill|Parkeisenbahn Bernburg|de|Parkeisenbahn Krumbholz}}, Bernburg, Krumbholzallee
- Parkeisenbahn Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Küchwald – Park
- {{ill|Cottbuser Parkeisenbahn|de|Parkeisenbahn Cottbus}}, Cottbus, Eliaspark – Spreeauenpark
- {{ill|Ferienlandeisenbahn Crispendorf|de|Ferienlandeisenbahn Crispendorf}}, Crispendorf, Ferienland
- Dresdner Parkeisenbahn, Dresden, Großer Garten
- {{ill|Parkeisenbahn Gera|de|Parkeisenbahn Gera}},{{cite web|url=http://www.gera.de/sixcms/detail.php?id=15569&_nav_id1=10267&_nav_id2=10272|title=Parkeisenbahn|website=www.gera.de}} Gera, Tierpark
- {{ill|Görlitzer Parkeisenbahn|de|Görlitzer Oldtimer Parkeisenbahn}},{{cite web|url=http://www.goerlitzerparkeisenbahn.de/|title=Görlitzer Oldtimer Parkeisenbahn - Startseite|website=www.goerlitzerparkeisenbahn.de}} Görlitz, An der Landskronbrauerei
- {{ill|Parkeisenbahn Peißnitzexpress Halle|de|Parkeisenbahn Peißnitzexpress Halle (Saale)}},{{cite web|url=http://www.pe-halle.de/|title=Startseite|first=Christian|last=Wodzinski|website=www.pe-halle.de}} Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Peißnitzinsel
- Leipziger Parkeisenbahn, Leipzig-Wahren, Auensee
- {{ill|Pioniereisenbahn Magdeburg|de|Pioniereisenbahn Magdeburg}} Magdeburg, Rotehornpark, until 1967
- {{ill|Parkeisenbahn Plauen|de|Parkeisenbahn Syratal Plauen}},{{cite web|url=http://www.parkeisenbahn-plauen.de|title=Förderverein Parkeisenbahn Syratal Plauen - Home|website=www.parkeisenbahn-plauen.de}} Plauen, Syratal
- {{ill|Parkeisenbahn Vatterode|de|Parkeisenbahn Vatterode}}, Vatterode, Vatteröder Teich
=Hungary=
- Budapest Children's Railway
- Mecseki narrow gauge railway, Pécs
- Széchenyi Railway Museum, Nagycenk
- {{ill|Tiszakécske Children's Railway|de|Schmalspurbahn Tiszakécske}}
=Kazakhstan=
=Poland=
- Silesian Culture and Recreation Park, Chorzów
- Park Railway Maltanka, Poznań (now run by the city)
=Russia=
File:Novosibirsk Park Railway 07-2016 img5.jpg
File:Kp4-447 Southern St.Peterburg Childrens Railway.JPG
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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
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=Slovakia=
=Slovenia=
=Turkmenistan=
=Ukraine=
=United Kingdom=
=Uzbekistan=
See also
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
{{commons category|Children's railways}}
- [http://www.dzd-ussr.ru/ Children's railways of the USSR] {{in lang|ru}}
- [http://www.dzd-ussr.ru/english/ Children's Railways of the former USSR] {{in lang|en}}
- [http://www.gyermekvasut.hu] {{in lang|hu}}
- [https://archive.today/20121219115656/https://www.gysev.hu/portal/page/portal/INTERNET/GYSEV_ONLINE_3?p_h_menu=6] {{in lang|hu}}
{{Pioneer movement}}
{{Authority control}}
Category:750 mm gauge railways