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Dresden Park Railway

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The Dresden park railway (Dresdner Parkeisenbahn) is a minimum gauge railway in Dresden, Germany. [1]

19 relations: Children's railway, City Council of Dresden, Dresden, Dresden Zoo, Eastern Bloc, Electric locomotive, Fifteen-inch gauge railway, German reunification, Germany, Großer Garten, Light railway, Locomotive, Minimum-gauge railway, Passenger car (rail), Pioneer movement, Saxony, Steam locomotive, Transparent Factory, Volkswagen.

Children's railway

A children's railway or pioneer railway is an extracurricular educational institution, where teenagers learn railway professions.

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City Council of Dresden

The City Council of Dresden is the elected representative body of the citizens of Dresden that administers the affairs of Dresden a self-governing city kreisfreie Stadt in the Free State of Saxony.

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Dresden

Dresden (Upper and Lower Sorbian: Drježdźany, Drážďany, Drezno) is the capital city and, after Leipzig, the second-largest city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany.

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Dresden Zoo

Dresden Zoo or Zoo Dresden, is a zoo situated in the city of Dresden, Germany.

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Eastern Bloc

The Eastern Bloc was the group of socialist states of Central and Eastern Europe, generally the Soviet Union and the countries of the Warsaw Pact.

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Electric locomotive

An electric locomotive is a locomotive powered by electricity from overhead lines, a third rail or on-board energy storage such as a battery or a supercapacitor.

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Fifteen-inch gauge railway

Fifteen-inch gauge railways were pioneered by Sir Arthur Percival Heywood who was interested in what he termed a minimum gauge railway for use as estate railways or to be easy to lay on, for instance, a battlefield.

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German reunification

The German reunification (Deutsche Wiedervereinigung) was the process in 1990 in which the German Democratic Republic (GDR, colloquially East Germany; German: Deutsche Demokratische Republik/DDR) became part of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG, colloquially West Germany; German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland/BRD) to form the reunited nation of Germany, and when Berlin reunited into a single city, as provided by its then Grundgesetz (constitution) Article 23.

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Germany

Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.

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Großer Garten

The Großer Garten (English: Great Garden) is a baroque style park in central Dresden.

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Light railway

A light railway is a railway built at lower costs and to lower standards than typical "heavy rail": it uses lighter-weight track, and is more steeply graded and tightly curved to reduce civil engineering costs.

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Locomotive

A locomotive or engine is a rail transport vehicle that provides the motive power for a train.

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Minimum-gauge railway

Minimum-gauge railways have a gauge of most commonly,,,, or.

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Passenger car (rail)

A passenger car (known as a coach or carriage in the UK, and also known as a bogie in India) is a piece of railway rolling stock that is designed to carry passengers.

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Pioneer movement

A pioneer movement is an organization for children operated by a communist party.

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Saxony

The Free State of Saxony (Freistaat Sachsen; Swobodny stat Sakska) is a landlocked federal state of Germany, bordering the federal states of Brandenburg, Saxony Anhalt, Thuringia, and Bavaria, as well as the countries of Poland (Lower Silesian and Lubusz Voivodeships) and the Czech Republic (Karlovy Vary, Liberec, and Ústí nad Labem Regions).

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Steam locomotive

A steam locomotive is a type of railway locomotive that produces its pulling power through a steam engine.

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Transparent Factory

The Transparent Factory is an exhibition space in Dresden, Germany owned by German carmaker Volkswagen and designed by architect Gunter Henn.

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Volkswagen

Volkswagen, shortened to VW, is a German automaker founded on 28 May 1937 by the German Labour Front under Adolf Hitler and headquartered in Wolfsburg.

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Dresden Parkeisenbahn, Dresden park railway, Dresdner Kindereisenbahn, Dresdner Park Liliputbahn, Dresdner Parkeisenbahn.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dresden_Park_Railway

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