Kazan children's railway, railway line in Russia

The Kazan children's railway is a 4,288-metre, 750-mm gauge line in the Lebyazhye forest park between Zalesny and Lake Izumrudnoye in Yudino. It has two stations, Molodyozhnaya and Izumrudnaya, and two platforms, Sportivnaya and Beryozovaya Roshcha. Station buildings are modern, with blue elements and glass; the main station has ticket offices, a depot and a teaching building.

A children's railway in Kazan was first proposed in early 2004, and on 10 March 2005 the city committee was tasked with preparing the documentation. Work was halted during the 1000th-anniversary celebrations of Kazan, and the final decision was taken in May 2006 at a meeting between Mintimer Shaimiev and Russian Railways head Vladimir Yakunin. Construction, briefly suspended in December 2006 over protests about tree felling, resumed in February 2007; the line opened on 30 August 2007 with Shaimiev, transport minister Igor Levitin and Yakunin present.

The line is called a children's railway because pupils run it: after theory classes from October to March, they practise in summer as drivers, signal operators, station masters, mechanics and conductors. Six classes are taught, from locomotive and wagon management to signalling and passenger service, and a modelling club teaches children to build railway models by hand.

The line runs through the Lebyazhye forest park in Yudino, with the terminus beside the beach on Lake Izumrudnoye. Trains run three times a day during the June–August practice season, so you can get off at an intermediate stop and walk back. Several bus routes connect the starting station with the city, and a car park is provided there.

The line's rolling stock includes two locomotives, TU7A-3344 and TU10-022, and four Metrovagonmash carriages of models 20.0017 and 20.0018 with a combined capacity of 157 passengers. Near the Yudino end of the route stands a broad-gauge steam locomotive preserved as a monument.