Yekaterinburg children railway
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![]() O&K steam locomotive № 12350 (№ 9) with a passenger train on the track from Sun to Central ![]() | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Line length | 2.8 km (1.7 miles) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Track gauge | 750 mm (29,5 inches) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nikolay Ostrovsky's Yekaterinburg children railway (Russian: Малая Свердловская железная дорога имени Н. А. Островского; other names - MSZHD, DSZHD, Sverdlovsk children railway) is a children's railway in the city of Yekaterinburg, Russia.
The track with a gauge of 750 mm (29,5 inches) has so far a length of 2.8 km (1.7 miles). It has four stations. The round trip lasts 27 min.
It was opened for passengers on 9 July 1960.
It has three locomotives (TU7А, TU10 and TU2 type) and several all-metallic Polish passenger wagons «Pafawag».
56°49′04″N 60°38′34″E / 56.81778°N 60.64278°E / 56.81778; 60.64278