Children's Railway in St. Petersburg - a fairy tale for children

The children's railway in St. Petersburg is the place where your child gets into a real fairy tale, created by adults for children. Any of Peter's residents can ride along it, as well as the visitor of the Northern capital. The length of the road is 8.1 km. There are three stopping points (stations): Kirovskaya, Zoo, Ozernaya. Small October Railway awaits you! There are always smiling guides and a holiday!

Historical part

The idea to open a railway for children appeared in 1939. Sinyavsky first expressed it. He headed the railway laboratory of the Leningrad Palace of Pioneers. His proposal was not considered immediately, but he nevertheless achieved the sketch of the project. It was mentioned in the pre-war newspaper Smena. It was written there that it should begin at Zagorodny Prospekt. The starting point is the territory of the Vitebsk railway station. Under him were to give the royal pavilion. It was built in 1903 for the travels of the emperor and his family to the outskirts of St. Petersburg. Under the project, the route was to repeat the route of the royal road, which was built in 1901.

A small October railway for children opened in August 1948. For all the time she had thousands of fans. Thanks to her with the future profession thousands of children were identified. The children's railway in St. Petersburg has undergone many reconstructions.

Future Railwaymen

The Small October Railway is the only center of its kind that focuses on the profile orientation of schoolchildren in St. Petersburg and the suburbs. Training takes place over 4 years:

1. The first. Children master such professions:

• Conductor of the car,
• controller,
• The duty switchman on duty.

2. The second. You can acquire skills that will be useful in such professions:

• Chief conductor,
• lineman,
• Chief and foreman of the train.

3. The third. Children get acquainted with professions:

• station duty officer,
• Train dispatcher,
• Assistant locomotive driver .

4. The fourth year of study. They master the skills of a locomotive driver.

Tuition fees

Children study free of charge. In winter, the educational process takes place in specially equipped classes. The corps of the young railway workers is located at the embankment of the Obvodniy Canal, house 120. In summer, children are waiting for practice. It takes place at the production base at 4 Ozerkovskiy Avenue, as well as on the southern highway near the metro station Kupchino. St. Petersburg allocates money from the budget for food and a railway form for students during the production practice.

Vacations with a profile slope

The children's railway in St. Petersburg offers its young students to spend their holidays with profit. During the autumn and spring holidays, free tours to museums and enterprises with specialized subjects are organized from the school.

Excursions

The children's railway in St. Petersburg is run by children. They are machinists, station managers, dispatchers and conductors. Naturally, adults are always at the dangerous sites of work near the children.

Ticket price:

• Adult in both directions 200 rubles.
• Children's - 100 rubles.

The cost of the tour is 100 rubles. Both for the child and for the adult. On weekends, a puffing locomotive is caught on the wood with a modern locomotive. This is a real fairy tale for children!

You will be met by small guides at the cars. They have sparkling eyes and happy smiles, because they fulfill an important mission and work as adults. They will check the tickets and invite you to a cozy coach. Inside the train is very clean. The order is also monitored by the guys themselves.

You can sit in a soft comfortable chair and all the way to enjoy quotations from fairy tales printed on curtains. During the trip you will be told about the history of the ChRW. The funny thing is that the opposite conventional trains are greeted with "child" whistles, and he responds with reciprocity.

The terminal station is Tsarskoe Selo. Here you will be waiting for the guide. He will take you to the depot, dispatching and relay. The road passes through the park with wonderful benches of wheel sets. Also here you can see funny sculptures on the lawns. They are made of unnecessary parts.

In the depot, the guide acquaints you with the key concepts of the railway:

• He will explain why the wagons do not go off the rails.
• Tell you how the brakes work at the train.
• Tell about the term, like a motress.

Then you can observe how the old steam locomotive is running. It looks like a huge samovar. It is pumped with water from a huge tap and add fuel to the fuel compartment. Now the locomotive can be sent back to Kupchino, and you will be invited to the relay. This is the duty station work station. You can watch the process of sending a train on a special console. On the walls you can see the photo of the first issue of the ChRW.

Today the railway has two routes. The northern route is 2.1 km long and the southern one, which runs from Kupchino to Pushkin (formerly "Detskoye Selo"). Its length is 10.8 km.