The Grand Garden of Dresden
Vast Baroque park with a summer palace, lakes, tree-lined avenues and a child-run miniature railway.
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This guide to the Großer Garten, the Grand Garden of Dresden, follows the narrow-gauge railway that loops through its trees and the unusual crew who work it. It reaches back to a summer in nineteen fifty, a line meant to run for only a few weeks, and the East German children's organisation that gave it a new name. Along the way you meet two steam engines from Munich that spent the war hidden in a quarry. Best heard near the palace pond, where the trains pass.
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