Sverdlovsk Children's Railway
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.jpg) O&K steam locomotive № 12350 (№ 9) with a
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.png) Route of the Sverdlovsk children's railway
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| Route length: | 2.8 km | ||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 750 mm ( narrow gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||
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The Children's Railway Sverdlovsk ( Russian Свердловская детская железная дорога имени Николая Алексеевича Островского , Sverdlovskaya detskaja schelesnaja doroga imeni Nikolaja Alexejewitscha Ostrowskowo ) is a narrow-gauge miniature railway in Central Park of Culture and Recreation in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg . The line opened on July 9, 1960 as one of the many children's railways in the Soviet Union and is in operation from Wednesday to Sunday in the summer.
history
After the construction of the Children's Railway was planned in the late 1950s, the city council and city committee decided the Komsomol Sverdlovsk in 1958 to present the pioneers of the city a gift: a private Pioniereisenbahn . In the same year, construction began in the forest of the Central Park for Culture and Recreation named after Vladimir Mayakovsky ( Russian Центральный парк культуры и отдыха имени Маяковского , Central Park Kultury i otdycha imeni Mayakowskowo ). A committee made up of pensioners from the Sverdlovsk Railway was set up to organize the training of young railway workers. After the theoretical lessons in the house of the railway workers, the youngsters could get practical training on the children's railway.
The railway was officially opened on July 9, 1960. It has been named after Nikolai Ostrowski since 1961 .
Route
So far, the route has four stations over a length of 2.8 km. The journey time is 27 minutes. Although the train stops at all stations, passengers are only handled at the terminus. The remaining stations are in the forest, which is rarely visited.
Stations
Today's main station building is made of concrete and has two floors: there is an office room and a waiting room for passengers on the ground floor. On the upper floor there is a hall and the offices of the head and deputy head 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 buildings at the anniversary station. It used to be a busy part of the park near the Zentralpark station. On the platform there was a ticket sales counter made of chipboard, which was not rebuilt after a fire. This led to an interesting peculiarity of the children's train: the person on duty at the anniversary station always rides on the train.
Rail vehicles
Locomotives
The steam locomotive of the class Dh2t, built by Orenstein & Koppel in Germany in 1931, is occasionally used on public holidays, but is also sometimes heated up. It comes from the Mansfeld mine railway of VEB Mansfeld Kombinat Wilhelm Pieck Eisleben .
The Sverdlovsk Children's Railway also has the following diesel locomotives:
- Conversion diesel locomotives of the SŽD series ТУ7А - № 3355
- Diesel locomotive RŽD series ТУ10 - № TU10-013
- Diesel locomotive SŽD class ТУ2 - № 236
Currently, however, only two of the three diesel locomotives are used regularly: The narrow gauge locomotive ТУ7А -3355 with an output of 294 kW (400 hp) and a weight of 24 tons and a smaller ТУ10 -013 with an output of 170 kW (230 hp). The diesel locomotive ТУ2 -236 came after the closure of the narrow-gauge railway in Tula Oblast ( Тула-Лихвинская узкоколейная железная дорога ) in 2000 for the Children's Railway Sverdlovsk. It is rarely used.
The PD-1 draisine is only used for business purposes.
dare
Six VP750 wagons from the Kambarka machine works are used in regular passenger traffic (as of June 2015). The cars were procured at different times: the first three cars were delivered in 2010, before the completion of the restoration of the railway line. They are painted red and yellow. The second batch, which also consists of three cars, was delivered in mid-2013. These trolleys have a slightly modified shape, especially the windows, and are equipped with luggage racks and tables. The cars have not been repainted and are still in their original gray, red and blue colors. Trains usually have three cars on weekdays and six on weekends. There are also some Pafawag cars parked on the siding near the museum , which still have to be overhauled.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Карта пути. ( Memento from September 24, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (Russian)
- ↑ Пассажирский вагон ВП750 . Archived from the original on January 6, 2014. Retrieved June 6, 2015. (Russian)
Coordinates: 56 ° 49 '3.58 " N , 60 ° 38' 33.94" O