Yekaterinburg children railway
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| Line length | 2.8 km (1.7 miles) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Track gauge | 750 mm (29,5 inches) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Yekaterinburg children's railway (Russian: Малая Свердловская железная дорога имени Н. А. Островского; other names: MSZHD, DSZHD, Sverdlovsk children's railway,[citation needed] Ostrovsky Minor Sverdlovsk Railway[1]) is a children's railway in the Mayakovsky Central Park of Entertainment and Culture in the city of Yekaterinburg, Russia.[1] It was opened for passengers on 9 July 1960 as one of the many children's railways which were operated in the USSR. The railway currently operates Wednesdays to Sundays in the summer.
After planning the construction of the children's railway in the late 1950s building of the children's railway, the Yekaterinburg (then called Sverdlovsk) city council and Komsomol of Yekaterinburg decided to establish their own children's railway. In the same year, construction began in the forest of the Central Park of Culture and Recreation named after Vladimir Mayakovsky. A committee of retired railway workers of the Sverdlovsky Railway, which was responsible for the training of youth railway workers, was convened. After the academic lessons in the railway workers' house, the youth received practical training on the children's railway.
Route
The narrow-gauge route 750 millimetres (30 in)[citation needed] has four stations.[1] The length is 2.8 kilometres (1.7 mi) and a round trip lasts 27 min. Although the train stops at all stations, passengers are only checked in at the final stations. The remaining stops are in the forest, and are rarely visited.
Stations
The current main station is made of concrete and has two floors. On the ground floor, there is an office and waiting room for passengers. On the upper floor there is a hall and the offices of the manager and deputy manager of the children's railway and a ticket office. Behind the station there is a meeting point for young railway workers and a depot with additional rooms.
There are no rooms at Jubilee stop. This was previously a well-visited area of the park near the Central park station. There was a wooden ticket office on the platform which was not rebuilt after a fire. The person on duty at the Jubliee stop always travels on the station.
