Full-Fledged Railways Ran By Kids: Children's Railways Of Eastern Europe
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- Опубліковано 23 сер 2024
- Who of us, as a kid, did not want to become a train driver? Not everyone manages to carry their love of the railway by the time they make a career choice, but what if I told you that there is a place on Earth, where being just a teenager you can already drive a real train?
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US: "Gotta be 16 to drive a car!"
Ukraine: "Hey kid, you 10 years old yet? Wanna drive a train?"
I wish could drive a car at age 16
HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHA
The title though "eastern europe"
I'm from romania, a nation in eastern europe and I've never heard of this in my life.
And by the way you have to be at least 18 in romania to drive a car.
americans have a hard time with learning the fact that europe is a continent. Sometimes it's innocent and comical like in this case but in other cases you have american bigots blaming the entire continent of europe for something like "stealing land from native americans" or "the transatlantic slave trade".
And Russia
@@_bedil_ there is a great need for train drivers. the trains are big and the locomotives are big and powerful, like in the USA
Sadly the hungarian children's railway is closed due to covid rn, but if it reopens, i recommend everyone to pay a visit, for railway fans the trip is especially nice.
I was there 2 weeks ago. One of my classmate works there, but at the day he had a free day. The next day, he went back to work right away and didn't come to school.
Soviet education was very technical. Look at old textbooks and you see diagrams of rockets, spacecrafts and other engineering stuff. For kids wanting to work in railways, this seems like an amazing opportunity to learn and kickstart that carrier.
There is a thing in every major city: The citizens usually don't visit the tourist sites of the given city. Now, with the Children's Railway in Budapest it's the complete opposite: among Budapest citizens it's a very common weekend activity to hop on the Tram No. 60 (formerly: Cogwheel Railway) and change to the Children's Railway for a ride. Kids love it and the view is magnificent! For those, who are sad about the COVID-19 closure. Most of the Hungary's narrow-gauge railways are using this time period for massive renovations, including the Children's Railway.
Also, one thing to remember: The correct pronunciation of Budapest is with a 'sh' sound (like in 'mesh') and not with an 's'.
Poland has a spelling ''Budapeszt''. Sz basically means sh.
@@PLKartofel This is what drives me crazy about Polish language: for you 'sz' is 'sh' and 's' is... 's'. For us it's the opposite... 😂
@@TheParkanyi Not just in polish, its nearly every slavic language. cyrylic has one character for sh sound, though.
@@PLKartofel so do Czech, Slovak, upper and lower Sorbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Slovene, Lithuanian, Latvian, Karelian, Finnish (Rarely used), Estonian (Rarely used) and the Latin alphabets of Serbian and Belarusian. In their case it's Š.
I know ex USSR countries loved public transport, but I never knew they loved them so much they set up dedicated railways and fully fledged trains for scouts children to operate.
It is more about additional child education/activities
The same lokomotive TU2- 167 i drived 50 years ago, in age 14, in Leningrad. It was beaitiful time in summer at the children railway, where i was working 4 years, from 12 till 16.
Hello from Moscow children railway!
For several years he studied at the Ufa children's railway. I remember those times very warmly. Now I graduated from the railway college and study at the institute, for 3 years I have been working on large railways at the Russian Railways JSC. I am very happy and grateful to those people who came up with the idea of creating railways. I think these are very necessary and important enterprises for career guidance, pastime and gaining life experience for schoolchildren. It is a pity that there are fewer roads. Children's railways were closed in Latvia, Uzbekistan, in Kazakhstan and Armenia they have long been served by adults.
As an English teacher in Germany for 20 years, I've had many a chance to speak to Germans who grew up in communist East Germany, and they too told me stories of being in the 'FDJ' (Free German Youth movement) and the 'Young Pioneers'. They also drove and worked these model railways and thoroughly enjoyed the experience being one of the best memories of childhood. Of course, there was an ulterior motive for this training in being good comrades and a preparedness to act for your country during a crisis, or even a war.
The Pioneer railways are still operating in cities in Eastern Germany, of course under different name nowadays. You can find a list on de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kategorie:Pioniereisenbahn_der_DDR - apart from Magdeburg and Prerow all operate to this day.
@@svenlakemeier And i bet its for same reason as in first coment, but for other side
Nothing wrong with teaching kids a valuable skill they may need in life.
> Of course, there was an ulterior motive for this training in being good comrades and a preparedness to act for your country during a crisis, or even a war.
This is, of course, very bad. It is necessary to educate egoists and individualists... And most importantly - qualified consumers...
Railways of the World - 4:40 the "firecrackers" are officially called Detonators. Used in railways all over the world as a safety device.
Regards from an ex railway employee from Australia.
I think this is amazing. What a superb way of teaching children responsibility and team work. Sadly I can't see this would be allowed anywhere in the west.
We welcome 16 year olds on our heritage railway in the UK although it'll take a number of years to get to driving as it would for any age.
@@CheesyGiant82 is that so Matt, I didn't know that. Thanks.
I would've loved to be a part of something like this if it was in the states. I have loved trains since I was a child, and especially visiting miniature ride-on trains. Something like this would've also trained children, especially those with special needs, how to handle a job and how to interact with customers and co-workers.
@@MrBnsftrain Would the US children railways be poorly maintained and managed to prepare kids for working on real American railroads? lol
I wish I’d had access to a program like that as a kid, we have an abandoned line just a few hundred meters from my home that could be used as a children’s railway.
Honestly this is such an amazing idea and one that should be a lot more common, it uses the almost universal interest that kids have in trains and teaches them valuable lessons about maturity while also letting them experience the best parts of it. It also means that this interest won't just die because the child isn't able to indulge in it and hopefully gets a lot of them interested in making this into a career and shows them why railways are the best form of transport. It's also incredibly clever because it basically lets the children get a taste of adulthood and then when the day is over they can take off their uniforms and go back to being children so it also doesn't stress them out, it's kinda like a really dedicated live action roleplaying game. You don't thrust them into a situation that they can't handle but instead give them a safe space to try being an adult and learn how to work together and that helps to ease them into being an adult. By the time they actually become one it won't feel like a sudden huge change but instead will just be natural because they already know all of the important skills.
I honestly can't express how jealous I am of this, I wish something similar could spread to the rest of the world.
As of the date of publication of this video train driving was already excluded from jobs prohibited for women. Even before that, a girl managed to enroll and complete the course (with flying colors) of a suburban train driver, and she is now working as an assistant driver on a regular suburban service in Moscow. Her name is Sofia Dorofeeva. The ban list now includes about 100 occupations instead of more than 400 before.
Oh man, I wish we had these in Czechia, that would be great.
Yeah, I was very surprised that Czechoslovakia didn't have any of these.
@@RailwaysoftheWorld1 They actually did unfortunately they have all been removed.
There was something simililar in Pilsner form 1959 to 1976 it was conecting a trolleybus stop and Pilsner zoo
@@RailwaysoftheWorld1 your research team failed on this one. komrad :) wikipedia "Košice_Children's_Heritage_Railway"
It would be cool project to attempt to resurect them or perhaps even build new ones in some places like Brno for example - there is pretty big undeveloped field of grass right in the middle of the city nearby '' Vaňkovka '' shopping mall, I heard it is going to be developed in some way soon, perhaps some sort of park and few commercial buildings or something like that, Im not sure, but it would be cool if some sort of this '' Children's Railway '' was implemented there.
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I've ridden on such a train operated up in the hills of Budapest, Hungary, though it is not a minature one but a half size one that operates over a single track of a few kilometers with several stations where the track divideds for both directions. The engineer is an adult, but all other jobs are done by teenagers. I got on a train and quickly was surrounded by a lively young school group that got a little noisy. I asked the two boys who acted as conductors in english when the return trains came back, but either they were unprepared for english responses or they didn't know and I teased them a bit that "Every conductor needed to know the schedules of the line." It was great fun!
This is why I respect true born Russians, Ukrainians and all other Slavic people. Not only that there freaking awesome there just badass and cool to be around!
Excellent video of a subject I admire... I was fortunate to ride "Children's Railways" in St Petersburg and Kharkov... Bravo for posting this video - Spasibo!!
When we where in Budapest three years ago, we made a ride in the Gyermekvasút, and was amazing.
The Fogaskérekü was also amazing.
My grandmother told a lot about the Széchenyi hegy.
Every time we went to Hungary, we pay several visits to the incredable transport sistem, the trams, trains and the nostalgic transports, like the cogway and the childrens railway.
I am very eager to return to Hungary.
We had one children's railway in Malakhovka in Moscow region. I am 34 now, but still remember those delight feeling from visiting it!
I love narrow guage railways, I grew up near The Revenglass and Eskdale line in the UK, now I live in Latvia there is a narrow guage steam line in Alūksne/Gulbene which I have not yet visited, but plan to once the lockdown restrictions ease off again.
that´s actually a great idea to learn a lot of skills and teamwork capabilities. kids and teenagers run the thing while carefully observed by adults.
It makes me wonder if such a system could work in the West. Here in America, we're facing a serious problem of children being pressured to go to university and often coming out with mountains of debt and no work to be found, all while skilled labor jobs like carpenters, plumbers, welders, air traffic controllers, and yes even train drivers are becoming more and more desperate for new recruits. And that's to say nothing of the declines in child behavior and discipline and the lack of opportunity for teenagers leading to hooliganism and crime.
Imagine if these kids had the option of joining a modified version of the Children's Railway program; a group activity, possibly even paid, that teaches them not only all of the vital career skills required to run a railroad but also vital life skills like teamwork and discipline in the workplace. Might even help with some growing urban problems if laid out right; narrow gauge freight railroads could help with drayage from warehouses and freight yards to inner city businesses thus supplementing or replacing worn out, underpaid truckers, or light passenger rail could run commuter services from city centers out to the suburbs, taking more cars off the highways. Heck, might even help make for better car drivers if they've been taught how to drive or even just work around something much bigger that can do more damage to themselves and others if they mess up.
The parents and the teachers unions would scream bloody murder. How dare you put little Johnny in danger of using his hands?!
There is one in the UK (Downs Light Railway) and many are in Germany, not in America though
There are a lot of narrow-gauge railways in Switzerland, so many people travel by them to school, work or to relax. Also, they transport a lot of goods on them! (Not children's trains, of course.)
In Hungary, there was serious freight traffic on the Budapest tram network until the nineties. (In contrast to e.g. many German cities, where there was no traffic due to the 1000 mm tram and 1435 mm railway gauge.)
The Budapest Children’s Railway is one of the best in the world! I recommend it to everyone! I’ve ridden it many time and highly recommend it because it curves and meanders through the Buda hills and has multiple stops to many interesting sites! There are also a lot of great hiking trails! Also as mentioned in the video it is really well connected with the city transport system!
I absolutely LOVE this! It's a shame we have too many rules and regulations here in the US because this would be an awesome thing to get started up here.
The railways, are a life-long passion for people. I'm sure there are many children throughout the world, who would love the opportunity to help run the railways, from the smallest responsibility, up.
10 year old: *plays with toy trains*
Eastern Europe: “Time to take him on the tracks!”
There is also one such railway in Poland in the city of Poznań - it's called Maltanka because of the name of the nearby lake Malta.
wow, man, this episode has everything: awesome trains and childhood nostalgy, cute girls in uniform and feminism, even a joke about photoshop! aboslutely love it!
Приезжайте в Россию, прокатим! СПб метро Купчино.
Ksenia, you look like that Russian spy woman.
@@avigdonable yes looks like Annka Kuschenko (aka Chapman)
those kids has most amazing Childhood
you forgot to mention the "Pioniereisenbahnen" in the former DDR and now in (east-)germany, there are many of them still remaining here.
This is beyond awesome. This is the type of shit I want to build if I get stupid amounts of money.
Some mom out there probably having a talk with their kid like: "There are kids out there becoming professional locomotive engineers, and here you are making TikTok videos about picking your nose with chop sticks! Do something productive with your life!"
😂
For those asking, yes the awesome Budapest Children's railway is open again, after Covid
I remember the at least 3 rides on the Kurgan Children's Railway, a 1,05 km long line. It connects two stations: "Pionerskaya" (Pioneers), located in the Central Park of Kurgan, and "Zvyozdochka" (The Star), situated close to a beach. Both stations have the switchbacks explained at 5:03.
The railway initially used a TU2 steam engine and Pafawag carriages, which in 2011-2012 were replaced by the same type of locomotive and carriages as seen at 2:19.
The reason to why I visited Kurgan in 2006, 2010, 2017 and 2018, was because my great grandmother, who is over 90 years old, lives there. Unfortunately, her sister passed away in November 2020.
The children's railway in Kurgan continues to work!
This is so cool! I understand why these were never a thing in the US, but I really wish they were
Still have one of them here in Berlin operational. Just like 3 stops by tram away.
Very jealous of these full-blown railways for youngsters. Here in Catalonia we do have similar railways, but they are 10 inch gauge and lower and many of them are closer to scale trains than a true railway. I'm member of one of the bigger ones , Tren de Palau, and it's heartwarming to see kids interested in the railroad, some of which are becoming members!
I really hope that the preservation railways (like the Mid-Suffolk Light Railway) take note of these Children railways. I think these could really help there volunteer shortages.
Military General: “we need all the abled bodied men and women for service in the military”
Transportation Minister: “but comrade who will drive the trains?”
Minister of Education: “I’ve got just the kids for the job”
The most unoque of them is situated in my native city Krasnoyarsk. It has exclusive gauge width. That's why the locomotives and the coaches there are exclusive too. They use accumulator-powere loco nowadays.
That story about the small engine saved from scrap touched me I many be a expert of nature I also love trains especially steam locomotives
un freakin believable... every children (and grown-ups) dream.....
Vocational Education, we have far too little of the this available in the U.S.A. We over-focus on University prep.
I work at a live steam miniature railway in Zurich which is operated by us kids, its an absolutely fantastic opportunity to learn about train driving and other stuff
I've heard from some of the alumni that it used to be a real community, kids would visit each other's cities, make friends, learn and have fun together. In their adult lives, some actually work for public transport.
Unfortunately, Ukraine's Railway is closing down some of these "unprofitable assets." At least 2 of the 9 railways you've mentioned are not going to reopen their doors when the lockdown is over.
You're right. Ist's a really large community. I'm working at children's railway at Berlin since 1980 ... more than 40 years now.
The railway of Budapest I know since 1992
Hi! I remembered another iconic soviet vehicle that well deserves a video - the motorized draisine TD-5U. in my opinion the best vehicle of its' class, that was conceived during ww2 and still offers crucial services in most remote failing narrow gauge railways when even trains get scarce.
Yeah, I have an old plan to gather a team, go to Alapayevsk narrow-gauge railway and hire a Pionerka.
@@RailwaysoftheWorld1 Wow that's a fast response! respect!
Anyhow, i hope it works! you can also use yt footage, there is enough for part of a video at least i think. tho i think feeling the actual experience will surely help make it an even better hommage video. I hope you can make it happen, with or without Alapayevsk! Good luck!
We had a Pioneer railway in Ljubljana, Slovenia (former Yugoslavian republic) as well between 1948 and 1954. Unfortunately it shut down due to low ridership, and is now a bike trail.
Я ходил на такую дорогу в школе в Ростове-на-Дону. Водил поезд. Очень хорошая штука.
This is literally a dream come true for my 7 year old self
We used to have one in our city (Pilsen). Only couple of remaining structures are left of it, unfortunately.
What a fantastic idea these child railways need to be more common
Good on Elena breaking that glass ceiling and paving the way for all the women who want to have this dream job. Because, yeah how cool is it!
Just wanna point out that not allowing woman to drive trains wasnt meant in a bad way, it was a very dangerous job back in the day with steam loco´s. The thing is just that they never changed it even tho the technology was better.
I think Moscow started allowing female to operate metro train this January
There was no such restriction until 1980s, and there were lots of female train drivers, both railway and metro, before that. But since then, only one, Natalia Kornienko somehow forced her way through, she worked in Moscow metro and became famous for this. She went into retirement in 2014. In 2017, Elena Lysenko (she is in this video) was accepted as train driver assistant on railway but was not allowed to become driver until Jan 1st, 2021. She is now though, and there are several more in Moscow metro already.
@@Alex-og3ev Thanks for ur info! Yeah USSR actually accepted women as railway workers pretty early. I think Zinaida Troitskaya was the first female train conductor in world history. I have no idea why they banned women from driving trains after decades...
@@Alex-og3ev But she is a EMU driver, not train, f. e. freight.
Children‘s railways seem to be a thing in ex Warsaw Pact countries. I also know of one in East Berlin.
This is so cool. I wish we had more passenger rail in the USA. Our trains are great for freight, but for a person to travel from one end of the country to another is arduous and extremely long. If we had something like this maybe rail would be more supported. I live in the middle of the country and wish I could take a train to visit family on the coasts instead of driving.
These need to be a thing in a lot more places.
man now I wish my city had one of these
A wonderful documentary and great information for any childeren all around the world... Thanks a lot.....
Dont forget about Asia Children Railways like in Kazakhstan!
Shymkent Child Railway
4km long railway with TU2 Locomotive Number 112.
But! It doesnt work after 2015
The train had is last ride from Station Sportivnaya to Tulpar.
@Railways of the World -
All countries with much railway should build such Children's Railways.
So,heart touching ❤️❤️❤️❤️
A good way to teach valuable skills to children
In several places the Pioneer Railways have turned into "Heritage Railways" (Good examples of this can be found in Berlin, Chemnitz, Chorzow, Dresden and Kosice etc etc) It would be a very good idea for the local community to take over the lines in Ukraine (Rivene & Uzghorod etc etc) from the State Railways who want to close them anyway.
Young Pioneers, these were Pioneer Railways. The Soviet Union and Russia today take the railways seriously. The RZD today runs the worlds largest system of higher education with railway related colleges and universities all over Russia.
this is how you prepare the next to come for Live and hardships that it may come with.
Nice video like and subscribed from Czech Republic 🙂👍👍👍
Perfect !
This 75 gauge railroad is very much standard item for mining and for many international ( narrow ) line operations. It could be wise for some countries to adopt it for special routes in mountain region and some low density population places.
Right now im very into trains and it would be so cool and fun to have something like that on some kind of camp where you are trained to do the job you want to do at the small railway system
У нас в Свободном самая большая в стране ДЖД, летом дачников и детей в лагерь возит
Harbin, China had one children’s railway in the Children’s Park. However it ceased to be operated by children decades ago.
no sweat shops along the line.
Budapest's Mk45 diesel NG locos are from the Romanian manufacturer, FAUR.
my child self would have loved this.
The Pioneer Railways were called this for no other reason than that the Soviet children organisation was called the Pioneers.
I was I had one in Romania, unfortunatley the closest one is about 2k kilometers away in hungary, which is very far for children.
Oh, that place is my dream.
Which one?
Amazing!
I wish programs like these were available for kids in India.
That's such a cool thing! And we in Europe and America taught that we were driving real trains with our simulator games....
Why did I think I would see an 8 year old driving a train at 100mph 😳😂
This system is amazing
Duude! I would have LOVED this as a child! This was my dream as a kid
Small railways, try the Prague to Ceske Krumlov ride. It actually starts well outside Prague. It’s different.🇦🇺👍🍺
There was over 110 of this "unique" railways all over the world. And 55 is still operating present days. Mostly in Russia, Ukraine and Germany.
That's pretty awesome Im from the United States and remember when I was young there was a museum (cannot remember which one - somewhere around New Jersey) you could run a train down a straight track a couple hundred yards and then backwards. Nothing like this though!
We have that in Germany (Dresden)! Pls show that in a video as well !!
There are things called micro nations out there. If I ever make my own country, I want to do this
Incredible initiative.
Great video like it very much.loads of detail.Hope there more.
Interesting video! Good work! Thumbs Up & Subscribe
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This is so cool .
4:24 who else was expecting candy to fly out?
Interesting.
Wow, a kids dream come true!!
I am willing to make Diesel Multiple Units for these useful children railway once,since it requires time to rotate direction at the end of the route
I feel depress now after I heard this
Very nice video.