Alvhem – Lilla Edet railway line

Alvhem-Lilla Edet
Special train at Lödöse
Route number :	74
Route length:	15 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Top speed:	Bandel 666: 30 km / h
Operating points and routes
Legend Industrial connection 15.2 Lilla Edet (from 1939) 14.7 Lilla Edets godsbangård ("Lilla Edet" until 1939) 14.2 Kyrkvägen (demand stop) End of the route 13.2 Lilla Edets bruks lastspår ( SCA ) 12.3 Göta norra (demand stop) 11.5 Göta 10.6 Gläfsnäs (demand stop) 10.1 Tunge torp 9.0 Kärra (demand stop) 7.9 Yarn skola (demand stop) 6.6 yarn 5.6 Eckerna 4.6 Eckerna södra (demand stop) 3.3 Lödöse by (demand stop) 2.7 Lödöse (formerly Bhf.) 1.6 Gossagården (demand stop) Gothenburg – Falun railway from Falun 0.0 Alvhem (personal stop from 1906 to 1970) Railway line Gothenburg – Falun to Gothenburg

The Alvhem – Lilla Edet railway is an approximately 15-kilometer standard-gauge railway in Sweden . It was built by Lödöse – Lilla Edets Järnvägsaktiebolag between Alvhem on the Gothenburg – Falun railway line and Lilla Edet in Älfsborgs län .

Lödöse – Lilla Edets Järnvägsaktiebolag

The main route of the Bergslagsbana between Gothenburg and Kil was originally planned entirely along the Göta älv . During construction, however, an eastern variant was chosen from the former Lödöse station. When the Bergslagsbana was opened in 1877, some places remained without a rail connection.

That is why the Lödöse – Lilla Edets Järnvägsaktiebolag was founded, which opened up these places from August 1906 with a branch line from Lösöse. The Lödöse station was renamed Alfhem (later Alvhem) and a new Lödöse station was built on the new route. The settlement of the construction costs from 1910 shows costs of 724,041 kroner with a share capital of 336,800 kroner. The company was based in Gothenburg.

This branch line was served by Bergslagernas Järnvägar from the time it opened . Passenger trains hauled by steam locomotives ran until 1933, from which time the Y6 1 rail bus from Nydqvist och Holm , which was specially procured for this route, was used. Hilding Carlsson rail buses operated from 1943 . This enabled the railway to hold its own against the competition from road buses for a few years.

nationalization

Bergslagernas Järnvägar , the operator of this route, had been integrated into the Trafikförvaltningen Göteborg – Dalarne – Gävle (GDG) since 1919 . The decision of the Swedish Reichstag on May 17, 1939 on the general nationalization of the railways in Sweden laid the foundation for the takeover of GDG. In 1947, the BJ and with it the Lödöse – Lilla Edets Järnvägsaktiebolag were transferred to a state company with the same name, but the name TGDG , which was finally merged into the SJ a year later .

Passenger traffic continued to decrease after the takeover by SJ, so that it was discontinued in 1952. Since then, only a few special trains have operated.

In terms of freight transport, the forest industry as well as the sulphite factory in Göta and the paper factory in Lilla Edet were mainly served. Alvhem station has been vacant since 1970. Therefore, since then, through freight trains between Sävenäs and Lilla Edet with locomotives of the T21 series , which were later replaced by the T44 series, have been used.

After the tracks to the Lilla Edet station had not been used for a number of years, they were dismantled around 2010 and the station grounds were redesigned. Parking spaces were created at the train station, with mostly a cycle path on the track bed. The operating track ends bluntly in Lilla Edets Bruk behind the connecting switch. Moving is not possible there and can only take place on the premises of Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget .

Web links

• Stig Lundin: Linjen Brålanda – Alvhem. Retrieved March 14, 2018 (Swedish). 
• Alvhem-Lilla Edet. In: järnväg.net. Retrieved March 14, 2018 (Swedish). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Alvhem – Lilla Edet. Retrieved March 14, 2018 . 
2. ↑ JNB 2020 Bilaga 3 E STH per sträcka. (PDF) Utgåva 2019-06-26. trafikverket.se, June 26, 2019, p. 150 , accessed on July 22, 2019 (Swedish). 
3. ↑ to banvakt.se, bandel 287. Retrieved on March 14, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Bidrag till Sveriges officiella statistics, Allmänna arbeten. (PDF) 1906, p. 80 , accessed on March 14, 2018 (Swedish). 
5. ↑ AM Alexanderson: Lödöse – Lilla Edets järnväg . In: Theodor Westrin (Ed.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 17 : Lux-Mekanik . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1912, Sp. 244 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
6. ↑ Lödöse – Lilla Edets järnväg. In: Svensk rikskalender 1908. PA Norstedt & Söners Förlag, Stockholm 1908, p. 707 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
7. ↑ Bussdrift å Bergslagernas Järnvägar. Retrieved March 14, 2018 (Swedish). 
8. ↑ Lödöse – Lilla Edets järnväg . In: Vetenskapsakademi (ed.): Sveriges statskalender för år 1925 . Almqvist & Wiksell boktryckeri AB, 1925, ZDB -ID 205099-7 , p. 1165 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).