Arvidsjaurs Järnvägsförening

Train the Arvidsjaurs Järnvägsförening the station Arvidsjaur

Arvidsjaurs Järnvägsförening (AJF) is a Swedish railway company based in Arvidsjaur , which mainly offers journeys with historic trains on the inland railway .

history

When the continued existence of the inland railway was threatened in the 1980s, Arvidsjaurs Järnvägsförening was founded in 1986 as an association with the aim of promoting and maintaining rail traffic on the inland railway and the Jörn – Arvidsjaur railway line .

After the Inlandsbahn was able to be secured in its existence in the 1990s (see: here ), the activity of the association shifted to collecting and operating historic railway vehicles . Over the years, the association has built up a considerable collection and now carries out scheduled traffic on the inland railway.

The main offer is steam train journeys between Arvidsjaur and Slagnäs . The journey in Buddnakk at the Storavan is interrupted for barbecuing and swimming. Only the AJF trains stop here. Another offer is trips to the winter market in Jokkmokk in historic diesel railcars . Moreover chartered the AJF special trains to private purchasers, such as for the TV series railway romance of SWR .

vehicles

E2 1241 from Arvidsjaurs Järnvägsförening

• two steam locomotives of the class SJ E2 - E2 1105, built in 1912 and E2 1241, built in 1915, which were involved in the Akkavare railway accident in 1956, in which 16 people died.
• four diesel locomotives of the SJ T21 - 57, 60, 73 and 101 series
• two diesel railcars of the Y7 series
• two diesel railcars of the Y8 series
• ten passenger cars from the 1930s

The Arvidsjaurs Järnvägsförening railway depot with a turntable and a five-station locomotive shed is located at the northwest end of the Arvidsjaur station .

literature

• Arvidsjaurs Järnvägsförening (Ed.): Arvidsjaurs Järnvägsförening . [Leaflet], undated (2014).

Web links

• Arvidsjaurs Järnvägsförening. OM FÖRENINGEN. Arvidsjaurs Järnvägsförening, accessed February 15, 2016 (Swedish). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ARVIDSJAURS JÄRNVÄGSFÖRENING. allabolag.se, May 28, 2018, accessed September 12, 2018 (Swedish). 
2. ^ Railway romance, episode 529: On glittering tracks through Sweden's green heart .