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Historiskt - about Swedish railway history (in Swedish and English) järnväg.net - information on all Swedish railways (in Swedish) Winchester, Clarence, ed. (1936), "Sweden's rail system", Railway Wonders of the World, pp. 1161– 1165 illustrated description of the Swedish system in the 1930s
Rail transport in Sweden uses a network of 10,912 kilometres (6,780 mi), the 24th largest in the world. [3] Construction of the first railway line in Sweden began in 1855. . The major operator of passenger trains has traditionally been the state-owned SJ, though today around 70% of all rail traffic consists of subsidised local and regional trains for which the regional public transport ...
The Roslagsbanan railway (891 mm), Stockholm County. Sweden once had some fairly extensive narrow-gauge networks, but most narrow-gauge railways are now closed.Some were physically converted to 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) standard gauge (the latest one the line between Berga and Kalmar in the 1970s) and some remain as heritage railways.
The Swedish Railway Museum, (Swedish: Sveriges Järnvägsmuseum), in Gävle, Gästrikland, Sweden is the national museum for Sweden's railway history. The Swedish Railway Museum is tasked with acquiring, preserving and supplying knowledge about Swedish railway history on the basis of the national collection.
The Swedish State Railways was created on 1 June 1888 [2] as an agency belonging to the Ministry for Civil Service Affairs, with the task of managing all state-owned railway lines in Sweden, and was transferred to the Ministry of Communications in 1920.
Transport in Sweden is available for all four main modes of transport—air, bus, ferry and rail [1] —assisting residents and visitors without their own vehicle to travel around much of Sweden's 450,295 square kilometres (173,860 sq mi).
History of rail transport in Sweden This page was last edited on 20 July 2018, at 13:45 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
Pages in category "Heritage railways in Sweden" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. D.