Penza, 8 September 2015. PenzaNews. The Penza children’s railroad has serviced over 8,500 people in the 30th practice season.

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“This is 1,000 passengers more than in the previous season,” the press secretary of the Penza branch of the Kuybyshevskaya Railroad Svetlana Zatuliveter commented for PenzaNews agency.

The railroad students successfully organized 850 train arrivals and departures from May to September, honing their practical skills after a school year of theoretical studies, she added.

“In 2015, 10 of the 20 graduates of the lesser railroad enrolled into the railroad education institutions: nine in the Penza colleges, one in the Moscow Institute of Transportation Engineers. All the others aim to study for railroad field work the next year,” the speaker explained.