The Children of the Hills

CHAPTER XXII
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After the war, in 1948, Budapest began constructing a children's railway in the Buda Hills, opened in 1950 and later known as the Pioneer Railway. What made it unique was not only its route through the forest, but the fact that children were actively involved in its operation — trained to assist at stations, guide passengers, and support daily railway work under adult supervision.

The railway was part of a broader post-war system in which youth organisations played an important educational and ideological role, blending learning with real responsibility.

Today, the line still runs through the quiet hills of Buda, far from the city’s noise. Over time, it has outgrown its original context and become something else entirely — a slow journey through nature, and one of Budapest’s most unusual living traditions.

Older residents sometimes say the railway was a symbol of a city trying to rebuild itself by trusting the next generation too early — and too deeply.

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