and what better for the kids than a Children's Railway?
image MÁV Zrt. MÁV-VOLÁN GROUP, The Budapest Children’s Railway, called The Gyermekvasút, is a 7-mile-long rail
line in Budapest that’s operated by children aged 10-14 (aside from the train’s
driver), the project, then called the Pioneer’s Railway, was started in 1947 as
a part of a three-year Communist plan. This video shows how the railway
operates and includes interviews with current workers as well as former workers
from the Communist era,
like any other railway, it has ticket offices, diesel
locomotives, signals, switches and a timetable, all run by children, the line stretches among the Buda hills from
Széchenyihegy to Hűvösvölgy, crossing the Cogwheel Railway and serving Normafa
as well as the highest point of Budapest: Jánoshegy, for more information and how to apply have a look here, as a kid I would have loved to do something like this, well you never know, why not give a line like this a try in the UK?
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