The Dresden Park Railway will be running through the Great Garden again from Sunday (April 13). According to Schlösserland Sachsen, the small trains will run every Wednesday to Sunday until the end of October in their 75th season. The carriages are pulled by two electric locomotives along the 5.6-kilometre route, with one of the steam locomotives being used at weekends and on public holidays in good weather.
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the two Dresden steam locomotives "Lisa" and "Moritz" on September 6 and 7, both small trains will steam through the Great Garden - together with a third steam locomotive of the same type, which will be traveling from Leipzig especially for the occasion.
According to the palace administration, the five stations have been painted and redesigned, and the young railwaymen are also wearing new uniforms. 170 children and young people under the age of 18 are learning how railroad operations work technically and organizationally at the park railroad. The children and young people are train conductors, dispatchers or sell tickets, for example.
The narrow-gauge railroad, which started operating in 1950, is one of the oldest of its kind in Germany and was the first pioneer railroad based on the Soviet model in the GDR.
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