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Children love trains. Adults love trains. These two rules have been known for many years, which is confirmed every year by the huge demand for such entertainment. Not a secret. that for many people traveling south by train is more comfortable than by plane. Many people take their children to look at the engines, and railway modellers spend millions on beautiful models.

The most serious entertainment, bordering on serious work, is the children's railway. Ten such roads were built throughout the Soviet Union, and the closest to the capital was located in Kratovo. This year she completed her 80th year!

1. Kratovo - a small village between Zhukovsky and Ramenskoye. A narrow-gauge line runs through the forest here, one of the terminal lines is located in the neighboring town of Zhukovsky next to the Otdykh railway platform. This station is called Youth. Historically, it was called "Ilyich's Way", which is why a monument to the leader of the people was erected here.

2. We managed to get on the last day of work this season. Everywhere there is festive atsofera, balloons and numerous children with their parents.

3. A festively decorated locomotive TU2-129 turns around at the station.

4. At this time, the last flight to the depot is being boarded.

5. Six full-fledged carriages were completely filled. The cost of a one-way ticket for an adult is 80 rubles, but this does not prevent all parents from traveling with their children. Parents are expected to take two seats, which is why many passengers on the children's railway rode standing up that day!

6. View from the last car.

7. It was impossible to film during the trip. Huge number of people. practically Vykhino (or Prospect Veteranov for St. Petersburg)!. But at the end, at the Pionerskaya station, I went out and took a few photos of the track development.

8. This year, the six-car train ran 4-5 times a day, 4 times a week. The distance between stations is 3.8 kilometers. The entire track development of the system is almost 5 kilometers.

9. Platforms and stations, even in design, are as close to real as possible.

10. The same crowd, the same lonely box office, the same small shelter in case of rain. But we were lucky with the weather.

11. 5 car.

12. In the end, all the young railway workers took photographs as a keepsake.

13. 80th year of work completed. Ahead of the 81st! And I should come back here next year and shoot the train in the forest and on the hauls.

14. Interesting entertainment.

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The decision to create a children's railway was made in October 1935 at a meeting of schoolchildren in the Ramensky district. On June 24, 1936, the pioneers began building their own road, and by November 7, 1936, the construction of the first stage of the road was completed. 2.3 km of track were built (including 1.8 km of the main track), temporary wooden buildings at the stations Put Ilyicha (now Yunost station) and Shkolnaya.
On May 2, 1937, train traffic was opened. Steam locomotives VL-1 (Vladimir Lenin) and IS-1 (Joseph Stalin) plied on the road.

The opening of the summer season on June 22, 1941 coincided with the beginning of the Great Patriotic War. In the spring of 1942, young railway workers responded to the call "Let's replace the fathers and brothers who went to the front" and took part in the construction and operation of narrow-gauge railways of Spetslestranskhoz People's Commissariat lines of communication in Bronnitsy, Faustovo, Khobotov. During the entire war, these branches were used to deliver the timber necessary for the production of sleepers to the front-line railways.
After the end of the Great Patriotic War, the young railway workers began to restore the children's railway. On June 14, 1945, traffic was restored, and the work was completed in the summer of 1947.

Since that time, the length of the main track of the road has been 3.8 km, and the total operational length is 4.962 km. Subsequently, the total operational length was somewhat reduced due to the fact that the turning structures for steam locomotives were dismantled and turned into dead ends.
In 1957, instead of the decommissioned IS-1 steam locomotive, the TU2-078 diesel locomotive and four all-metal Pafawag cars of Polish construction were delivered to the Small Moscow Railway. In the same year, a stone depot for two stalls was built at Pionerskaya station.
In 1963, the road was equipped with automatic blocking and worked year-round for five years.

In 1971, during the overhaul of the road, R43 rails were laid on the track, route-relay centralization was installed at the Pionerskaya station, electric centralization was installed at the Put Ilyicha station, and auto-blocking was installed on the stretch between them.
In 1972, the era of steam locomotives ended at the Kratovskaya ChRW. The last of the steam locomotives, Rp-771, was dismissed from work, and a diesel locomotive TU2-129 was received instead.
In 1979, an educational and laboratory building and a new high platform were built at the Pionerskaya station.

In 1982, the Pafawag cars were replaced by the all-metal passenger cars PV40 of the Demikhov plant, which are still in operation.
In the middle of summer 2003, a new building was erected at the Yunost station with a light canopy for passengers and a room for the station staff.

In 2005, a complete reconstruction of the Moscow Children's Railway was carried out - the track was replaced, a hangar for wagons was built, a new microprocessor-based automatic blocking system was introduced, the rolling stock was completely replaced (diesel locomotives were modernized), a sports ground was built. railway workers from 25 schools in the Luberetskiy, Ramenskiy, Voskresenskiy districts and the city of Zhukovsky, as well as children from the "young railway worker" circles in Moscow.

The Children's Railway annually graduates more than 70 young railway workers, at least 50% of whom enter educational establishments railway transport.
In summer, a train of 6 wagons and two diesel locomotives TU2 runs on the road.
Students are admitted to the children's railway starting from the 5th grade. Career guidance classes are held on the basis of general education schools and children's railway. Circles "Young Railway Worker" work from October to May, practical classes on acquaintance with professions are held from May to August.

An adult ticket costs 70 rubles, and a child ticket costs 30 rubles. Moreover, at the Yunost station, a person is considered a child from the age of 3, and at Pionerskaya, for some reason, from 2.
Passengers are waiting.

Attached, the brigade signed a piece of paper. Everything is like the big ones.

The train leaves the station.

There are two stations on the line - "Youth" (the historical name "Ilyich's Way") and "Pionerskaya" (both terminal), and two intermediate platforms "School" and "Children's".
Schoolchildren aged 11-17 from 25 schools from Moscow to Konobeevo are trained at the Kratovskaya ChRW. Full course 5 years of study. The train season starts at the end of May and ends on the last Sunday of August. In addition, students of the Young Railway Workers Circle at the Moscow state university ways of communication.

During the years of its existence, the road was renamed twice: first from Malaya Leninskaya to Malaya Moscow-Ryazanskaya, and then to Malaya Moskovskaya (Kratovskaya). The names of the stations have also changed. So, the station Put Ilyicha in 1991-92 was renamed Yunost. The Kultbaza station was renamed Pionerskaya no later than 1951.
At present, the border between the city of Zhukovsky and the village of Kratovo passes along the line of the children's railway.

The train season starts at the end of May and ends on the last Sunday of August. Since May 27, 2015, the Moscow Children's Railway has been operating 5 days a week: from Tuesday to Saturday (There are no trains on Tuesday, because the railway is being prepared for the carriage of passengers). The first train leaves from Pionerskaya station at 10:00; trains run at intervals of 1 hour. There are 3 to 4 pairs of trains per day. Sometimes the number of train pairs per day is reduced (for example, due to air temperatures above 29°C, due to severe delays of trains, weather conditions, etc.). Also, the movement can be completely canceled. air show in Zhukovsky or other events. The decision to cancel the movement is made only by the head of the road.
The platform "Children's" is designed to receive only two cars, unlike other stations of the road. As a rule, the wagons into which children are boarded from the camp on this platform are closed for the passage of other passengers.

Episodes of the film "Leon Garos is looking for a friend" were filmed on this railway and documentary"Forward Change"
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This is not an attraction or a toy, but a real branch of the Small Moscow Railway, passing on the border of Zhukovsky and the village of Kratovo.
Children's railways differ from the "adult" railway service in the size of cars, the length and width of the track (usually this is a section of narrow gauge track with a width of 600 to 1200 mm and a length of several kilometers), and also in that all processes are controlled by school children.

For almost 80 years, the pioneer tradition of training future railway workers has been carefully preserved here.

For me, the train to Kratovo is like a train from Romashkovo - a real symbol of childhood and a carefree summer.

And for children studying in circlesyoung railroad workers, this is a summerpractices that go hand in hand with theoretical course training over several years.

The idea to create such a school was born in the Soviet Union more than 80 years ago.

How it all began

The first experimental CHR was built in Moscow in 1932 in Gorky Park. It did not last long, by 1939 it had already been closed. For unknown reasons, the existence of this ChRW in the Soviet Union was always hushed up. A few years later it was closed and quickly forgotten. And in 1935, a similar road was opened in Tiflis (Tbilisi) at the initiative of Georgian schoolchildren. And it is she who is officially considered the first in the world.

Participants in the construction of the road in Tiflis through the newspaper "Pionerskaya Pravda" turned to their peers with an appeal to build a children's railway in other cities of the country. The idea received the support of the People's Commissar of Railways, after which the ChRW began to be built in the capitals of almost all Union republics and in the locations of the country's railway departments.

One of the first to respond to the call of the Tiflis pioneers was the pioneers of the Ramensky district - on October 30, 1935, at a meeting of pioneers, a council was elected to promote the construction of the Children's Railway in Kratovo.

Under the guidance of engineers of the Moscow-Ryazan railway. the schoolchildren independently carried out survey work and developed a road project, they also performed all the construction work themselves. Komsomol members helped them only in the most difficult work. Grand opening The Malaya Leninskaya Railway took place on May 2, 1937.

During the Great Patriotic War, the Small Moscow Railway actively participated in the transportation of necessary goods. For heroism and selfless work during the war years, three young railway workers were awarded the title of Hero Soviet Union, 12 more - were awarded medals "For the Defense of Moscow".

In Russia, there are currently 26 CHRs in the cities: Vladikavkaz, Volgograd, Yekaterinburg, Irkutsk, Kazan, Kemerovo, Krasnoyarsk, Kratovo, Kurgan, Liski, Nizhny Novgorod, Novomoskovsk, Novosibirsk, Orenburg, Penza, Rostov-on-Don, St. Petersburg (2 different roads), Svobodny, Tyumen, Ufa, Khabarovsk, Chelyabinsk, Chita, Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Yaroslavl.

Children's Railways provided invaluable assistance in training specialists for domestic railways during periods when the country, for a number of demographic reasons, experienced an acute shortage of qualified personnel. ditch.

For a long time, the stations of the Kratovskaya Railway were wooden. In 2002, the station buildings at the Yunost station burned down completely.

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In 2003, the station was completely reconstructed, a new building was erected with a light canopy for passengers and a room for the station staff. This is what Yunost station looks like now.

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In autumn 2004 - spring 2005, on the initiative of the Moscow Railway Administration, a major reconstruction of the Kratovskaya ChRZD took place. The main track of the Children's Railway was laid on concrete sleepers, all signaling equipment was completely replaced, including the installation of an inter-station fiber-optic communication line.

Instead of the old PV51 cars, the Metrovagonmash plant, on special order, built new ones, models 20.0015. To ensure the safety of the new rolling stock, a 70-meter hangar was built on the site of the second track of Pionerskaya station.

Significant changes also affected the fleet of traction rolling stock. Diesel locomotive TU7-2729 was decommissioned and scrapped. Both diesel locomotives TU2 were sent for overhaul to Ryazan. At the end of the repair, the TU2-078, which had changed beyond recognition, returned to the Kratovskaya ChRZ.

I even managed to look into the driver's cab.

Functions of the children's railway

First of all, educational and career guidance. Schoolchildren of 11-17 years old from 25 schools from Moscow to Konobeevo are studying at the Moscow Children's Railway. Full course of study 5 years. Young railway workers come to study directly at the road management in the village. Kratovo or in branches in Moscow (Central House of Children of Railway Workers), as well as the "Young Railway Worker" circle at the Moscow Institute of Transport Engineers. In addition, students of the Young Railway Workers' Club at the Moscow State University of Railway Transport have a summer practice at Malaya Moskovskaya.

On children's railways, young railway workers are taught the basics of almost all railway specialties. Wherein independent work during summer practice promotes the interest of children in working on the railway.

Here it is a real school of future personnel - from a third to a half of its pupils later connect their lives with the railway.

Educational. As in school, children learn to work in a team, interact with each other and with teachers.
In addition, working on a children's railway gives children an awareness of responsibility for their actions, teaches them to discipline and comply with safety regulations. Furthermore,the children's railway is often used to organize children's leisure activities (participation in hobby groups in free time, holding evenings of rest, competitions), the aesthetic development of their personality (many children's railways have drawing circles, film and photo studios, music and dance circles, etc.), as well as broadening their horizons (excursions to railway transport enterprises, meetings with interesting people) .

Transport. Most often, CHRs have no transport significance, and are perceived by passengers only as a park attraction. Only sometimes children's railways serve to deliver passengers from the city to suburban recreation areas (examples: Chita, Orenburg, Svobodny, Chimkent).

Time for a ride

There are more adults than children in the car.

There are two stations on the line - "Youth" and "Pionerskaya" and two intermediate platforms "School" and "Children's". The platform "Children's" was opened in 2006 and is a stop on request for boarding children from the "Kratovo" recreation center. The length of the entire route is 3.8 km.

Drivers, controllers, stations on duty - children are responsible for everything. The tickets are real, from Russian Railways, only without a barcode.

Julia was imbued with the romance of children's railways. We took pictures all the way and discussed how interesting it should be for the children to study!

According to tradition, children at each station wave to the departing train. So cute.

Children also work at the box office. But despite the fact that adults are almost invisible, they are there - they help, monitor safety, control processes. After all, the railway is a zone of increased danger.

At the Pionerskaya station there is an educational building and a carriage depot. There is also an arrow for turning the locomotive.

At attention, like real guides.

Bell as a tribute to tradition and a way to inform passengers that the train is ready to leave.

Interesting Facts

The forerunner of the children's railways was a private ride created in the mid-1890s. for v.kn. Mikhail Alexandrovich (son Alexander III) and his sisters in the palace park of Gatchina. It consisted of a steam locomotive and two or three passenger cars that ran on rails laid between the trees of the park.

In 1939-1940, a grandiose children's railway was designed for Moscow. She was supposed to have two lines, with a length of 12 and 8 kilometers(while the length of most ChRWs averaged one to two kilometers). The Moscow Children's Railway was supposed to use two types of traction - locomotive and electric. The best specialists were involved in the design of this road. The architecture of the stations was not to yield to the brilliance of the Moscow metro stations and VDNKh pavilions. This ChRW was supposed to be located in the Izmailovo park. The project was adopted on June 20, 1941. The Great Patriotic War, which began two days later, prevented its implementation. The ChRW in Moscow was never built. The current Small Moscow Railway is located in the village of Kratovo.

Throughout history in the USSR there were only three electrified children's railways: in Gorky Park in Moscow, in Uzhur and in Donetsk. None of them survived. The Donetsk Children's Railway, destroyed during the Great Patriotic War, was revived in 1972, but without electrification. After the war, plans for the electrification of the ChRW were abandoned due to security concerns.

The longest railway located in the city of Svobodny ( Amur region), it is nine times longer than the shortest ChRW (in Krasnoyarsk). The length of the Svobodnenskaya ChRW is 11.6 km, the Krasnoyarsk Railway is 1300 m.

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Family holidays with children should be not only fun, but also educational. The children's railway in Kratovo will be a great place for such a short trip. Here, children and their parents will get to know the work of railway workers and take a ride on a train run by teenagers, who also serve it.

History of occurrence

All work was completed in April 1937. The opening took place on May 2 of the same year. The nursery in Kratovo has developed more and more every year. In 1940, the station and additional kilometers of tracks were built.

During the Second World War, the tracks were destroyed. After the war, the pioneers and Komsomol members restored them, and the railway began to work at full capacity.

Small Moscow Children's Railway in Kratovo: reconstruction

In 1957, repairs were carried out at the Pionerskaya station. This event was timed to coincide with the receipt of a new diesel locomotive with four wagons from Poland. 1971 was marked for a complete reconstruction of the tracks. There have been technical changes at the stations:

route-relay centralization ("Pioneer");
electrical centralization ("Ilyich's Way");
auto-lock (on stages).

In 1979, a building for training and laboratory work. Here, young railway workers could study theory and practice. In 2002, a fire broke out at the Yunost station, and all the buildings burned down. In 2003, the buildings were renewed and improved.

In 2005, a complete reconstruction of the small railway was planned and carried out. The central station has been completely renovated. The depot was rebuilt using modern materials. Now it can accommodate several diesel locomotives and all wagons. Tours and lectures are now held here.

The wooden tracks were replaced with metal ones. Inside the carriages, a good repair has been made - the seats are soft and comfortable. In 2013-2014, the office building and stations were renovated.

Railway Features

The total length of the tracks is 4,962 km. This distance is enough for adults and children to enjoy an interesting ride on an unusual train. The children's railway in Kratów has two stations:

"Pioneer".
"Youth".

These stations have two platforms:

"School";
"Children's".

The tracks here are narrow-gauge, and the trains are designed for them. All work is performed by children under the guidance of adult professionals. The platforms and stations have been restored and have a modern look.

What kind of children work on the railroad

The small children's railway in Kratovo is a place where all functions are performed by children. But these are not ordinary guys from the street. They go through long training and pass exams. Sometimes the knowledge of young railway workers is deeper than that of adult specialists. This is due to serious preparation for several years.

Only a teenager who passes all the exams perfectly for a certain period of time can become a machinist. But this does not mean that he will hold this position for a long time. In the event of a poor passing of the exams, he is once again demoted. This selection applies to all professions.

Studying takes place in the autumn-winter period according to a strict schedule. Professional railway workers take part in the training process. Teenagers who have completed their studies on the Malaya Road and want to connect their lives with it in the future almost always enter the relevant universities on preferential terms.

Moscow Children's Railway (Kratovo): duties of teenagers

The guys do all the work here. Like on a real railway, children work in different specialties:

machinists;
controllers;
conductors;
dispatchers;
mechanics.

Young workers have a uniform. It is very similar to the clothes of Soviet children, but this is a kind of coincidence. Now the official uniform of the employees of the Russian Railways is made in the same colors. These are strict combinations of white and black tones with the addition of a bright accent - a red tie.

During the trip, the guides tell tourists the history of the railway and its sights. Young visitors can watch the process of hitching cars to a diesel locomotive. You can also visit the depot and sit in the driver's cab.

There are 4 crossings along the entire length of the tracks; children are also on duty along with adults. They are trained to translate arrows both manually and automatically.

50 teenagers aged 11-16 take part in servicing a flight of one train. These are the guys who are not only on the train, but also at every station, crossings, in the office. The train has 6 cars, and they are almost always full.

How to get there

Located near Kratovo. How to get to Kratovo by public transport? The easiest way can be considered a trip by trains that run in the Ryazan direction. You need to get off at the station "Youth" or "Pionerskaya".

By car, you need to move along Novoryazanskoe highway until the turn to Zhukovsky. You need to get to the traffic light and turn towards the city of Ramenskoye. Drive along Nizhegorodskaya street and cross two crossings. After the last one, park in the parking lot, 50 m from it is the Yunost station.

Both methods take a small amount of time and are very convenient. For personal transport near the station there is a spacious parking lot. You can safely leave your car there while traveling by train.

Infrastructure

In the village of Kratovo there is an excellent entertainment center. Several children's modern playgrounds with bright attractions are located here at once. Nearby there is a cafe and several small shops.

In a pine forest near the station there is a clean pond with beaches. On the shore and not far from it, you can ride a child on electric cars or horses. Clean pine air will be a great addition to the walk.

Comfortable benches are located around the central building, and the whole territory is immersed in flower beds. Everywhere is clean and tidy. Here it is - the children's railway in Kratovo. Photos on all resources and in this article testify to this.

In the shops of the village you can buy the necessary food and drinks. On the way back, you can walk through a beautiful and cozy park. You can relax and refresh yourself in a small and quiet cafe.

Working mode

The movement of trains largely depends on weather conditions. On rainy and cold days, work is not carried out. The children's railway in Kratovo (2016 was no exception) opens at the usual time - at the end of May.

For many years in a row, stations operate only during the summer holidays. Usually the season opens at the end of May and lasts until the end of August (the last Sunday). The rest of the time, the guys are actively trained.

In case of bad weather, the movement of trains stops in order to avoid traumatic situations and accidents. Sometimes working days are skipped due to exams that are held periodically for railroad guys.

There are three flights per day (subject to good weather). The first train leaves at about 10 am. The whole journey takes 20-25 minutes. During this time, you can not only admire the scenery outside the train window, but also learn a lot about the railway in general. What reviews does the children's railway in Kratovo have?

What do the reviews say?

There are a sufficient number of reviews on the Internet about the rest on the Small Railway. All of them are mostly positive. Parents note comfortable soft benches and neat little tables in the cars.

Kids, according to mothers, really like to watch the process of coupling cars. Children love to sit in the locomotive and look at the driver's control panel. Older children enjoy watching teenagers work at all stages of the journey. They are interested in communicating with their peers and learning from them curious stories about trains.

There are many reasons to visit the capital of Russia. Someone comes here to earn money, someone to enjoy the local architecture or visit a modern entertainment complex. The excursion program of parents with kids necessarily includes a children's in Moscow. She will definitely give a lot of positive emotions!

History reference

In Moscow it was built by pioneers. Its design began at the end of 1935, and two years later more than two kilometers of the railway were built. On the May holidays of 1937, the most significant event took place - the launch of two trains. Initially, they also had a name: VL-1 (in honor of Vladimir Lenin) and IS-1 (in honor of Joseph Stalin).

During the war period, the children's road was removed and hidden, it was restored by students only after a grand victory. The total travel distance to date is 3.8 km.

Subsequent reconstruction

For 50 years, various improvements have been made to this project so that the children's railway in Moscow is as close as possible to reality:

In 1957, new trailers were ordered from Poland. The old IS-1 was decommissioned. Instead, he was given a new diesel locomotive TU2-078.
Until 1963, the attraction worked only in summer mode, but after the introduction of some adjustments, it began to work all year round.
In 1971, a major overhaul was carried out, and in 1972 the road received a new steam locomotive TU2-129.
Since 1982, the cars of the PV40 passenger steam locomotive, which are still in use today, were brought in to replace the old ones.
The last time major repairs on this road were carried out in 2005, during which all the main tracks were replaced.

The children's railway, the photo of which is presented in our article, is still successfully operating today.

The local administration is very kind to this attraction. And every year, work is carried out here to support its functioning.

Features of traffic

The described railway is designed to transport small children. In summer, two steam locomotives run here, each of which is attached to six wagons. Initially, only three stops were created, namely: Shkolnaya, Yunost and Pionerskaya. Each of them has special entertainment for a different age category. Not so long ago, in 2006, a new stop appeared - "Children's".

An amazing feature of this road is that the entire organizational work carried out by schoolchildren, whose age is from 11 to 17 years. They manage transport, sell tickets, carry out repairs and perform other important tasks. Previously, they are trained in specialized circles of young railwaymen.

Timetable

There is a very convenient schedule for the children's railway. But keep in mind that the transportation of children here is possible only under favorable weather conditions. During heavy rain or temperatures around 30°C, the road is closed.

She works only four days a week (Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday). Opening hours from 10:00 to 18:00. However, before you go on a trip, you should call in advance and find out about the movement of trains on a particular day. For example, as already mentioned, passengers may not be transported due to weather conditions. In addition, sanitary work can be carried out here once a month.

About the fare

The price of a ticket for a children's railway depends on how old the passenger is. So, the age of children here is from 2 to 10 years. The ticket price for this category will be only 120 rubles. An adult will need to pay 160 rubles. Children under two years of age can travel free of charge accompanied by a parent.

Location

The most famous children's railway in Moscow is located approximately 40 kilometers from the capital of Russia. You can get to the village of Kratovo, where the educational buildings are located, from the Kazansky railway station by train at number 6620, 6222 or 6106. You can also get to this place by car. However, it is worth considering that near the children's railway station there is a very small parking lot, which is almost always crowded with cars.

Separately, it is worth talking about the area where the popular attraction is located. There is a lot of vegetation around, which makes the surrounding air unusually fresh. In addition, on the territory of the entertainment complex there is an excellent clean pond, the beauty of which simply cannot leave you indifferent.

It is also worth noting that the stations have a large number of attractions for children designed for the youngest guests - these are colorful children's towns, slides and swings. You can also rent cars here. Parents can wait for their kids on cozy benches.

Several times a season, educational excursions are held here, where you can get acquainted with the work of the staff, examine each carriage separately and visit the driver's cab.