Small West Siberian Railway

Diesel locomotive of the RŽD series ТУ10

Route of the Little West Siberian Railway

Route length:

5.3 km

Gauge :

750 mm ( narrow gauge )

Legend

		Sajelzowski Park ( Заельцовский парк )
		24 m long bridge
		Lokomotiv ( Локомотив )
		72 m long bridge
		Sportivnaya ( Спортивная )
		Yeltsovsky ( Ельцовский )
	5.3	Zoo Park ( Зоопарк )

The Small West Siberian Railway ( Russian Малая Западно-Сибирская железная дорога , Malaya West Siberian Railway ) is a narrow-gauge miniature railway in Sajelzowski Park ( Russian Заельцовский парк ) in the Russian city of Novosibirsk . The railway was opened on June 4, 2005 as a children's railway and is in operation every day except Mondays during the summer.

Route

So far the route has a length of 5.3 km. It has five stations.

history

The decision to build the children's railway in Novosibirsk was announced in August 2003 by the West Siberian Railway together with the Novosibirsk City Council. On this occasion, the foundation stone for the children's railway was laid in Sajelzowski Park, although the project was not yet fully planned. The design of the route was entrusted to the Sibgiprotrans and Scheldorprojekt institutions.

On June 4, 2005, the first phase of the children's railway was officially opened, the length of which at that time was 2,630 meters. It was put into operation on June 30, 2005 by the head of the West Siberian Railway as the twenty-third children's railway or "little railway" in Russia. The first section included a more than two hundred meter long steel pier, the Zoopark and Sportivnaya stations, an educational facility at the Sportivnaya station and the Yeltsovsky stop.

For most of the summer of 2005, there was only one train that ran back and forth with a locomotive at each end without having to relocate. On November 14, 2005 the children's railway was visited by the President of the "Russian Railways" Vladimir Yakunin.

As of August 6, 2006, the second section of the line with a length of 2670 meters was built by the “Russian Railways” in the Novosibirsk region and the Novosibirsk city administration. The second phase includes a steel pier more than three hundred meters long, two bridges with a total length of 96 meters, the Sajelzowski Park station and the Lokomotiv stop.

In 2015, the children's railway had already carried more than 480,000 passengers on its 10th anniversary.

Rail vehicles

Locomotives

The children's railway has three narrow-gauge TU-7 A locomotives, each with an output of 294 kW (400 PS) and a weight of 24 tons, as well as a TU-10 (TU10-006) with an output of 170 kW (230 PS). The following diesel locomotives are used on the route:

Rebuild diesel locomotives of the SŽD series ТУ7А - № 3338, № 3339 and № 3343
Diesel locomotive RŽD series ТУ10 - № TU10-006

More vehicles

There are also six passenger cars from the 20.0011 and 048-051 “Metrowagonmasch” ( Метровагонмаш ) models and three from the 43-0011 Kambarka ( Камбарска ) model series as well as a four-axle low side car for track construction. Each train consists of three passenger cars. The cars each have 36 seats and weigh 11.0 or 12.5 tonnes, are 11.1 meters long and 2.4 meters wide, over the buffers.

The trains have the names: “Skaska” ( Сказка , German fairy tale ), “Junost” ( Юность , German youth ), “Sibirjak” ( Сибиряк , German Siberian ) and “Metschta” ( Мечта , German dream ).