Dresden Park Railway
Narrow-gauge park railway staffed largely by children, with century-old steam engines on a woodland loop.
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This guide to the Dresden Park Railway in Dresden's Großer Garten follows a little line run largely by schoolchildren since the early nineteen fifties, and the seasons that rule it. You'll hear what the young crews do when the summer timetable stops, why some carriages are closed while most are open to the sky, and what the water of a small park stream once did to the route. Best heard on the platform, before your train leaves.
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