Today, April 15, the Kiev Children's Railway opened the 70th season of train traffic, the Ukrzaliznytsia website reports..

The first train through the Syrets forest park departed on August 2, 1953. During the opening of the anniversary season, a concert and a career guidance fair were held, where educational institutions of the railway profile were presented.

“In these difficult times, the big Ukrzaliznytsia proved to everyone that we cannot be overcome. The operating small railway once again confirms this,” said Yevhen Lyashchenko, Chairman of the Board of JSC Ukrzaliznytsia, the symbolism of the event..

Now more than a thousand children are studying in the circles " Many graduates later become employees of Ukrzaliznytsia. Last year, despite the full-scale war, 114 graduates of the Kyiv Children's Railway entered railway educational institutions. Already in the military year of 2022, more than 70 thousand passengers used the children's railway.

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“Last year, we opened the 69th season in June, when the children were just starting to return to Kyiv. It was the first year of a full-scale war, but despite this, we opened a children's railway and continued to educate our future generation,” recalls Oleksandr Pertsovsky, member of the board of Ukrzaliznytsia.

The length of the route on the Kyiv Children's Railway is 3.7 km. There are two stations on the railway: Kyiv-Passenger Children's and Zheleznodorozhnaya. There is an intermediate Park platform on the stretch between the stations.. The mini-railway is served by two diesel locomotives and one steam locomotive - the only operating steam locomotive on the children's railways of Ukraine.

Earlier it was reported that Ukrzaliznytsia launched a steam-powered retro train for the Christmas and New Year holidays.