The Kokshetau Children's Railway (; ) was a

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children's railway A children's railway or pioneer railway is an extracurricular educational institution, where children interested in rail transport can learn railway professions. This phenomenon originated in the USSR and was greatly developed in Soviet times. T ...

Kokshetau Kokshetau (; , ; rus, Кокшета́у, p=kəkʂɛ'taʊ; ), formerly known as Kokchetav (; ) between 1868 and 1993, is a lakeside city in northern Kazakhstan and the capital of Akmola Region. It stretches along the southern shore of Lak ...

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. The track with a gauge of had a length of . It had one railway station. The railway was inaugrarated on 6 August 1978 as one of the many pioneer railways in the

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.Дмитрий Сутягин (Dmitry Sutyagin)
Детские железные дороги СССР – История и современность: Кокшетау.
2000–2015. Retrieved 12 November 2017. It was taken out of service and dismantled in 1996.

Route

So far the track had a length of . It had one station.Kokchetav Children's Railway.
Downloaded on 27 November 2020.

Overview

It was fully operated by teenagers. One of many

s that existed in the

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and continued functioning after its breakup in post-Soviet states, it was opened on 6 August 1978 and continued functioning until 1996. The railway line counted 1 station: Sinegorie (or Sinegorye).

Rolling stock

Carriages

The trains had the names such as ''Yunyy Kokchetavets'' (Юный Кокчетавец, ''Young Kokshetau resident'') and so on.

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