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  • Renovated "Children's Railway" Reopens in Yerevan's Hrazdan Gorge

    RENOVATED "CHILDREN'S RAILWAY" REOPENS IN YEREVAN'S HRAZDAN GORGE

    hetq
    16:43, August 2, 2012

    On August 2, the fabled Children's Railway in the Hrazdan Gorge in
    Yerevan reopened to the delight of youngsters after being reconstructed
    by the South Caucasus Railway (SCR).

    As SCR CEO Victor Rebets noted at the official ceremony, the company
    had assumed he responsibility of renovating the Children's Railway
    in the children's interest despite the fact it no longer belongs to
    the railway of Armenia.

    "The construction of the Children's Railway 75 years ago demonstrated
    the importance of the facility for the city and today we try to give
    a new life to the park", Rebets stated.

    Victor Rebets stressed that restoration of the rolling stock and the
    track by SCR was only the first step in the comprehensive program of
    the reconstruction of the park. The second stage supposes to create a
    school for young railroader together with the administration of the
    city and the owner of the Children's Railway where children can get
    acquainted with the main railway professions, railway work as a whole.

    Reconstruction is also one of the ways to support the development
    of urban infrastructure of the capital of Armenia carried out in
    the framework of the agreement signed in 2011 on the socio-economic
    cooperation between SCR and Yerevan Municipality.

    The Children's Railway was opened on June 9, 1937 in Yerevan. It has
    two stations Hayrenik (Motherland) and Pionerakan (Pioneer)) and a
    platform Urakhutyun (Joy)). A tunnel of 45 meters is also located on
    the Children Railway.

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