Description of the attraction
The history of the children's railway in the city of Kurgan began in the 1970s. Initially, three variants of the railway route were developed, one of which involved the construction of a narrow-gauge "park" road with an insignificant length without transport value, and the rest - the construction of a narrow-gauge road of considerable length with transport value.
The construction of the children's railway began in August 1986, in honor of this event, a symbolic silver crutch was installed with a captured date, indicating the beginning of construction. A year later, the first 300 meters of the track appeared. After a while, the documentation was drawn up for the second part of the railway and the bridge.
In the same year, the TU2-047 diesel locomotive was delivered to the city of Kurgan from the Shilda depot. After that, construction work began on the construction of the station.
The construction was carried out slowly and lasted for several years. Two stations were built, which were named "Zvezdochka" and "Pionerskaya". The main station is Pionerskaya. Two platforms and a brick station building were built here. Particular attention is drawn to the 55-meter reinforced concrete pile bridge located 300 meters from the Pionerskaya station.
In 1989, a rolling stock, a TU2-159 diesel locomotive and two more Pafawag passenger cars, were delivered to Kurgan from the Bulaevo depot. In August 1989, on the day of the city, the solemn opening of train traffic on the Kurgan children's railway took place. The total length of the road was 1.5 km.
Late 1990s was quite difficult for the railroad. The lack of money to repair the equipment of the ChRW affected its full-fledged work. However, in 1998, the South Ural Railway allocated the necessary funds and the work of the "minor line" was resumed. Since the opening of the ChRW and until the end of the 90s. TU2-047 ran along the road, later it was replaced by TU2-159, which worked until autumn 2011. In the same year, a new diesel locomotive TU10-007 was delivered to Kurgan, and in 2012, two VP750 cars from the Kambara machine-building plant, who are working now.
