Heritage route
Zaslonov Children’s Railway
Zaslonovo → Sosnovy Bor · Belarus
Zaslonov Children’s Railway in pictures
Photographs by their authors, hosted on Wikimedia Commons · tap through for the licence
- Distance
- 4.5 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 20 min
- Average speed
- 14 km/h
- Top speed
- 20 km/h
- Operator
- Belarusian Railway (Minsk Children’s Railway)
- Train
- TU2 / TU7 diesel locomotive · narrow-gauge coaches
- Countries
- Belarus
- In service since
- 1955
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
A working 750 mm railway through Chelyuskintsy Park operated entirely by schoolchildren training as drivers, conductors and dispatchers.
How this line was checked
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Belarusian Railway — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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