Children's railway
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 600 mm (1 ft 11+5⁄8 in)[2] and can carry full size narrow gauge rolling stock.
List of children's railways
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Belarus
- Children's Railroad (Minsk)
Bulgaria
- Plovdiv[3]
- Kardzhali
- Camagüey, Parque Camilo Cienfuegos
- Havana, Parque Lenin (not operating)
- Havana, Havana Zoo
Georgia
- Berliner Parkeisenbahn,[4] Berlin, Wuhlheide
- Parkeisenbahn Krumbholz, Bernburg, Krumbholzallee
- Parkeisenbahn Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Küchwald
- Parkeisenbahn Cottbus, Cottbus, Eliaspark - Spreeauenpark
- Ferienlandeisenbahn Crispendorf, Crispendorf, Ferienland
- Dresdner Parkeisenbahn, Dresden, Großer Garten
- Parkeisenbahn Gera,[5] Gera, Tierpark
- Görlitzer Parkeisenbahn,[6] Görlitz, An der Landskronbrauerei
- Parkeisenbahn Peißnitzexpress Halle,[7] Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Peißnitzinsel
- Leipziger Parkeisenbahn, Leipzig-Wahren, Auensee
- Pioniereisenbahn Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Rotehornpark, until 1967
- Parkeisenbahn Plauen,[8] Plauen, Syratal
- Parkeisenbahn Vatterode, Vatterode, Vatteröder Teich
- Budapest Children's Railway
- Pécs
- Nagycenk
- Tiszakécske
- Aktobe (now defunct)
- Alma-Ata Children's Railway, Almaty
- Arkalyk (now defunct)
- Atbasar (now defunct)
- Ekibastuz (now defunct)
- Karaganda Children's Railway, Karaganda
- Kokshetau Children's Railway, Kokshetau (now defunct)
- Kostanay (now defunct)
- Astana (now defunct)
- Pavlodar (now defunct)
- Semey (now defunct)
- Schuchinsk (now defunct)
- Shymkent Children's Railway, Shymkent
- Zhezkazgan (now defunct)
- Chorzów, Silesian Culture and Recreation Park
- Poznań, Park Railway Maltanka (now run by the city)
- 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
See also
References
- ^ Children's railways: Gorky Park, Moscow (in Russian)
- ^ de:Pioniereisenbahn
- ^ "Cildren's Railroad "Zname na mira" in Plovdiv". Archived from the original on 2007-12-15. Retrieved 2007-11-12.
- ^ "Berliner Parkeisenbahn - Fahrplan". www.parkeisenbahn.de.
- ^ "Parkeisenbahn". www.gera.de.
- ^ "Görlitzer Oldtimer Parkeisenbahn - Startseite". www.goerlitzerparkeisenbahn.de.
- ^ Wodzinski, Christian. "Startseite". www.pe-halle.de.
- ^ "Förderverein Parkeisenbahn Syratal Plauen - Home". www.parkeisenbahn-plauen.de.
External links
- Children's railways of the USSR (in Russian)
- Children's Railways of the former USSR (in English)
- [1] (in Hungarian)
- [2] (in Hungarian)
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- Young Pioneers of China (People's Republic of China)
- Korean Children's Union (North Korea)
- Ho Chi Minh Young Pioneer Organization (Vietnam)
- José Martí Pioneer Organization (Cuba)
- 2nd December Young Pioneer Brigade (Laos)
- Agostinho Neto Pioneer Organization (Angola)
- Finnish Union of Democratic Pioneers [fi] (Finland)
- Vladimir Lenin All-Union Pioneer Organization (Soviet Union)
- Ernst Thälmann Pioneer Organisation (East Germany)
- Sükhbaatar Mongolian Pioneers Organization (Mongolia)
- Pioneer Organization of the Socialist Youth Union (Czechoslovakia)
- Pioneers of Enver (Albania)
- Hungarian Pioneers' Association [hu] (Hungary)
- Dimitrovist Pioneer Organization "Septemberists" (Bulgaria)
- Scouting Organization of the Association of Polish Youth [pl] (Poland)
- Pioneer Organization (Romania)
- Union of Pioneers of Yugoslavia (Yugoslavia)
- Miao Miao Children's Regiment (People's Republic of China)
- Little Octobrists (Soviet Union)
- Little Heroes (Mongolia)
- Little Drummers [hu] (Hungary)
- Chavdarche [bg] (Bulgaria)
- Șoimii Patriei (Romania)
- Red scarf
- "Always prepared!"
- Pioneers Palace
- Children's Palace
- Mangyongdae Children's Palace
- Children's railway
- Timurite movement
- Malawi Young Pioneers