The Košice Children’s Historical Railway was built in Košice between 1955 and 1956 as the Pioneer Railway. The local railway was financed by the Ministry of Transport and it was the first recreational railway in the then Czechoslovakia. Among other things, however, following the example of similar railways in the then Soviet Union, it also served to educate and motivate young railwaymen. Such railways were later established in Prešov, Plzeň and other cities of Czechoslovakia. However, only the one in Košice has survived. Source: detskazeleznica.sk