Children's Railway
Shuttered narrow-gauge loop through a river gorge, once a Soviet school for child train conductors.
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This guide to the Children's Railway in Yerevan opens at a bolted, peeling ticket window, once the entry point for children trained to drive and conduct these trains themselves. It traces the Soviet purpose of the six-hectare gorge-side line, its founding under local businessman Robert Atayan in 1998, and the modest rent the operating company has paid the city since 2014. From there the guide follows what happened once a Russian-Armenian investor bought a controlling stake in 2020 and this quiet loop of narrow track started drawing attention from people who had never ridden it. Look closely at the ledge of that shuttered window for the last honest price this place carried.
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