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title = "The Former Railway in the Children's \"city\" in Bucharest"
date = 2024-03-28T11:09:41+02:00
draft = true
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In 1976, a new Park in the neighbourhood of Berceni, a neigbouirhood whose purpose was housing the workers of the IMGB factory, was inaugurated. It included many attractions, but the most interesting thing was the railway.

There were 2 locomotives and 4 carriages for passengers. They were built by 23 August Works (now FAUR) and at first ran on batteries, but in the 90s, one locomotive was converted to diesel traction, using a tractor motor and the other scrapped for parts.

Until 1991, it ran gracefully, but then, "Thomas" got rented by private entitites and in 2002, he was locked up. In the meantime, a lot of the rail's bolts were stolen, but the rails were not, due to the fact that they were mounted by ITB, the communist era transport operator, which welded the rails with the buffers. 