Fryksta – Lyckan railway line

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Fryksta-Lyckan
Route length: 8 kilometers
Gauge : 1099 mm
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The Fryksta – Lyckan railway was the first public railway line built in Sweden in 1849 . As Pferdebahn executed narrow-gauge railway with the track width of 1,099 mm combined the loading point Fryksta Lastplats Lake Nedre Fryken with the loading point Lyckan on Klarälven in Värmland .

The engineer Claes Adolf Adelsköld was the designer of the first Swedish railway for general traffic . The railway called Frykstads Järnväg was planned in the track width of 44 Swedish Verktum , the so-called Werkzoll, mätt på hjulen (measured by the wheels).

history

The narrow strip of land between Fryken and Klarälven has been an important hiking and transport route since the Stone Age . A rich number of finds and graves testify to this. The ironworks and sawmills in Fryken were looking for an inexpensive way to get to Vänern in the 1840s .

The traffic problems were discussed in several meetings with industry representatives and private individuals. Finally, based on a proposal from land surveyor LG Örn, the construction of a railway line between Fryksta and Klarälven was agreed. The purpose was to transport iron and wood from the area around Fryken and to bring pig iron, grain and other raw materials in the opposite direction. The preliminary investigation for the eight-kilometer route was carried out by Carl Edward Norström , Claes Adelsköld and EA Nordenankar.

Frykstads Jernvägs Aktiebolag

In the winter of 1847 a company was founded in Karlstad to build a horse-drawn railway between Fryken and Klarälven ("för anläggande av en järnväg för hästkraft mellan Fryken och Clara Elf") . The resistance to the construction of the railroad was high at first, even the Reichstag member Leonard Fredrik Rääv was of the opinion that railways bring bad luck. The financing of the company Frykstads Jernvägs Aktiebolag with loans was then secured by one of the first Swedish public limited companies on February 9, 1848.

The company's rules showed from the beginning that ... the company undertakes to carry out the transport of goods by rail by paying a certain taxa ... that is, publicly. In consultation with John Ericsson , construction was to begin in spring 1849. On May 5, 1849, Adelsköld broke ground. Norström was the site manager and Adelsköld was the surveyor and work controller.

The embankment was usually 60 cm high. Only spades , horse-drawn carts and wheelbarrows were available to move the earth . It was an impressive achievement that the track was finished in just five months.

The track width was finally up to 1101 mm. There were Vignol rails used 50 mm high with a 75 mm base plate, with a weight per meter of twelve kilograms per meter. The greatest incline of the route was 1:45. On September 5, 1849, the first horse-drawn freight trains drove on the route; passenger traffic did not take place for the time being. The inauguration was carried out by King Oscar in the fall of 1850 .

A short time later, passenger transport was introduced. There were no passenger cars available, so freight cars were equipped with a tapestry roof . Three to six trains per day could be carried with 13 draft animals (oxen and horses). It turned out that this was not rational and in 1853 considered buying a locomotive. In 1854, Munktells Mekaniska Verkstad in Eskilstuna was commissioned to build a locomotive that was used from 1856. This was called FRYCKSTAD , construction number 2/1855, wheel arrangement C and was manufactured with a track width of 1101 mm. Compared to build number 1/1853 from the same manufacturer, FÖRSTLINGEN , the locomotive delivered good operating results .

business

Traffic was satisfactory and the volume of traffic high in the following years. At the time of the horse-drawn tram, 1,700 passengers were carried on the route in 1852. Of wood products, 12,143 Tolfter were transported in 1850 and around 16,000 Tolfter in 1856.

The small railway could no longer hold its own when the state railway line Karlstad - Arvika was opened in 1871. In autumn of the same year traffic on the Frykstabana was stopped.

On June 15, 1872, a three-kilometer branch line was opened between Fryksta and Kilneedre . Goods coming over the Fryken could still be loaded onto the railroad in Fryksta harbor. The Frykstads Jernvägs Aktiebolag was dissolved on August 15, 1873. Fryksta Railway Station served its original function until 1926, when a guesthouse was opened in 1931. In the 1970s the house was extensively renovated. Today the former train station is used as an office.

The standard-gauge branch line opened in 1872 was discontinued and dismantled in 1974.

Railway Museum

Fryckstadt , the oldest surviving locomotive in Sweden

In 1975 Frykstad Clara Elfs Jernvägs Sällskap was founded. to keep memories of Sweden's first railway line. In the same year, the company's log and accounting books were found in Uppsala and are now in the Värmland Archives.

Further memories of the railway line can be viewed in the summer in the carriage hall of Frykstad Clara Elfs Jernvägssällskap in Fryksta. The FRYCKSTAD locomotive is the oldest surviving locomotive in Sweden and is kept in the Swedish Railway Museum in Gävle .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klas (Claes) Adolf A. In: Bernhard Meijer (Ed.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 1 : A-Armati . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1904, Sp. 151 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
  2. ↑ a b Frykstad-Klarälvens Järnväg. In: Cykla Banvall. Retrieved February 2, 2016 (Swedish).
  3. ^ History of the Swedish Railways
  4. ↑ Construction overview of Munktells
  5. ↑ photo of the FRYCKSTAD ( Memento of 8 February 2006 at the Internet Archive )

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