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. The world's first children's railway was opened in Gorky Park, Moscow, in 1932. At the breakup of the USSR, 52 children's railways existed in the country.
Kolejka Parkowa Maltanka (Park Railway Maltanka) in Poznań, Poland (600 mm (1 ft 11+5⁄8 in) gauge).
Steam locomotive on Kyiv Children's Railway, Ukraine, 750 mm (2 ft 5+1⁄2 in) gauge.
Train of Novosibirsk Children's Railway
Kp4-447 Southern St.Peterburg Children's Railway with tender from Kch4-332. Taken at Molodejnaya Station at the North end of the line
A heritage railway or heritage railroad is a railway operated as living history to re-create or preserve railway scenes of the past. Heritage railways are often old railway lines preserved in a state depicting a period in the history of rail transport.
A tank engine takes on water through a water crane at the Bishops Lydeard station of the West Somerset Railway.
Train crossing a deck truss bridge on Serbia's Šargan Eight line
Token-passing at a children's railway in Zaporizhia, Ukraine
Steam train on Šargan Eight
