In 1935, the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Armenia
Aghasi Khanjian proposed the construction of the children's railway in Yerevan. In December 1935, the construction of the Yerevan Children's Railway was included by the USSR
State Planning Committee in the annual economic plan for 1936. According to the project, the railway was supposed to be extended to pass over a bridge that would be built across the Hradzan River, stretching for additional one and a half kilometers, climbing to the top of
Tsitsernakaberd as a funicular. These plans weren't realized. On 22 April 1936, during the
subbotnik in the city park on the left bank of the Hrazdan, attended by more than 10 thousand
Komsomol members, a ceremony took place, in which Khanjian and the Minister of Railways of the Armenian SSR laid the foundation stone of the main station. The deadline for the completion of the project was set for
7 November 1937, yet the construction of the railway was completed four months ahead of schedule. On 9 July 1937, a train, consisting of locomotive 159-434, donated by the
Voroshilovgrad Locomotive Plant, and three in-house made open passenger carriages, set off for the first time. Initially, a wooden building of the main station station was constructed but at the end of the 1940s, a new one was built in its place out of
tuff. In March 1959, the railway received two all-metal passenger carriages PAFAWAG. In 1971, it received a TU2-116 diesel locomotive. In the 1990s, after the collapse of the USSR, the road ceased to be a children's railway. It was serviced by adults, and only operated on weekends, when the nearby amusement park was open. The train (sometimes consisting of one carriage) passed the Uraxutyun platform without stopping and stopped near the Pionerakan station. Since almost nothing was left of it, passengers did not leave the carriage, and the train immediately returned to the beginning of the route with its carriages facing forward. In 2012,
South Caucasus Railway carried out repair works of the railroad infrastructure. In April 2024, Russian "RID" holding, tasked with restoring the railway, announced its decision to abandon the project, citing the lack of cooperation from the local authorities. The railway was closed in July of the same year. == Facilities ==