Children’s Railway – Kardjali

By 1953 at the place of the nowadays part Prostor (Open Space) in Kardjali there were only four huge sycamore trees and a garden of a few decares next to the Monuments of the Liberators. Gradually the construction of the town’s biggest park for relax and culture started. The project stipulated the construction of a children’s railway. Its existence however demanded the elaboration of a special project and a specialized building organization. The idea was approved and in 1962 was opened the first of the kind children’s railway. Thus started the history of the children’s railways in Bulgaria. The Kardjali railway is 1210 m in length, which is some 300 m longer than the one in Plovdiv. For many years the children’s railway in the Prostor park was one of the symbols of Kardjali. After a few-year suspension in 2006 the children’s train the railway were repaired and renewed. The little artists from the drawing school at the Municipal Home of Culture painted the refreshed locomotive and carriages. The children’s railway welcomed its first passengers on the 4th of August.