East Siberian Children's Railway

East Siberian Children's Railway
TU2-053 with a passenger train
Route
Route length:	3.75 km
Gauge :	750 mm ( narrow gauge )

The East Siberian Children's Railway ( Russian Детская Восточно-Сибирская железная дорога , Detskaya Vostochno-Sibirskaja schelesnaja doroga ) is a narrow-gauge park railway in Irkutsk . The track with a track width of 750 mm has a length of 3.75 kilometers. It has three stations. The line opened on November 8, 1939 as one of the many pioneer railroads in the Soviet Union and is still in operation today.

history

Designed in February 1937, the children's railway opened on November 8, 1939. It was originally located on the outskirts of the workers' town of Irkutsk and initially had a length of one kilometer. In 1992 it was moved to the islands of Junost and Konni, and ten years later, in 2002, the first station of the station complex was opened at Solnechnaya Station (the only one after the move). There is a classroom, a library and a museum of the history of the Russian railways. In 2003 two more stops were put into operation: Rodniki and Angara. At the same time, the children's railway was named after Georgi Ignatjewitsch Tetersky, a volunteer railway worker, head of the combined East Siberian and Krasnoyarsk network from 1968 to 1979.

Rail vehicles

The children's railway has four diesel locomotives:

• TU2K -053
• TU2K-228
• TU7 -2925
• TU10-016 (arrived December 2012)

In 2007 the TU2-228 locomotive was brought to the Slyudyanka depot. In 2008 the TU2-053 locomotive was modernized in the depot.

Retired Pafawag car

There are 14 ПВ40 cars and two decommissioned Pafawag -vans the Polish manufacturer of rail vehicles Bombardier Transportation Polska (German literally: State wagon factory) in Wroclaw ( Breslau ).

Railway stations and stops

The children's railway has 3 stations:

• Solnetschnaja (Солнечная, 3 tracks)
• Angara (Ангара, 2 tracks)
• Rodniki (Родники, source, 3 tracks).

Solnechnaya station is the most important, there is a station and educational building there. The Angara and Rodniki stops have platforms, but there are no station buildings there.

management

The long-time director Valentin Ivanovich Krasjukow was followed in 2011 by Alexander Alexandrowitsch Korschunow.

Web links

Commons : East Siberian Child Railway  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Bayshev Nikolay: Детская железная дорога в Иркутске. Страницы истории. Irkipedia, March 17, 2015. Retrieved November 12, 2017.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Sights and activities in Irkutsk: East-Siberian Children's Railway.
2. ↑ Дмитрий Сутягин: Детские железные дороги СССР - История и современность: Иркутск.
3. ↑ На Восточно-Сибирскую детскую железную дорогу поступила новая техника - Информ-Полис ( Memento of the original November 12, 2017 Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link is automatically inserted and not yet tested. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Coordinates: 52 ° 16 '7.64 "  N , 104 ° 16' 54.57"  O