Håkantorp – Lidköping railway line

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Håkantorp – Lidköping
Course book range : HLJ
Route length: 27 km
Gauge : 891 mm; from 1953 1435 mm
Operating points and routes
Legend
Route - straight ahead
 Lidköping – Forshem railway from Forshem
   
 Lidköping – Skara – Stenstorps Järnväg from Skara
Station, station
 27.9 Lidköping
Bridge over watercourse (medium)
 Lidan
   
 Lidköpings hamnbana
   
 93.7 Lidköping V (1877-1893)
   
 Lidköping – Tun to Tun railway line
Stop, stop
 94.160 Framnäs city (since 1993)
   
 94.751 Lidköping Esplanaden (until 1993)
   
 97.0 Tomtehagen
   
 98.044 Risa
   
 99.7 Axtorp
Stop, stop
 103.790 Lovene (former train station)
   
 104.8 Russelbacka
   
 108.9 Bryne
Stop, stop
 111.937 Järpås (Hjerpås, former train station)
   
 113.9 Järpås-Akron (until 2007)
   
 115.310 Smedtofta
Stop, stop
 118.435 Stora Levene (Håkantorps Anhalt, former train station)
   
 Älvsborgsbanan by Uddevalla
Station, station
 121.021 Håkantorp
   
 Tumleberg – Håkantorp railway line to Tumleberg
Route - straight ahead
 Älvsborgsbanan to Vara

The Håkantorp – Lidköping railway line ( Swedish Lidköping – Håkantorps Järnväg (HLJ)) was a narrow-gauge railway line between Håkantorp and Lidköping in Skaraborgs län in Sweden that was put into operation in 1877 .

It is part of the Gårdsjö – Håkantorp railway in Västergötland , which has been called Kinnekullebanan since the name reform of the Swedish railway lines by Banverket in 1990 .

Lidköping – Håkantorps järnvägsaktiebolag

The railway line was built by Lidköping – Håkantorps järnvägsaktiebolag and began in Håkantorp, from where the Uddevalla – Vänersborg – Herrljunga Järnväg (UWHJ), built with 1217 mm gauge, started. The HLJ station was built east of the existing UWHJ infrastructure. The line ended west of the Lidan in Lidköping V station and was opened to traffic on December 12, 1877.

Two steam locomotives were procured to operate the line :

number Surname design type Wheel alignment Manufacturer Fabr.-No./
year of construction		 Special
1 MARCUS GABRIEL DE LA GARDIE Tank locomotive C t Nydqvist och Holm , Trollhättan 80
1877		 1893 to Lidköping – Skara – Stenstorps Järnväg No. 5; 1905 to Hvetlanda – Målilla Järnväg No. 6; 1906 new No. 15; 1910 at Ödegårdens Kalkbruk AB, Ekedalen, 1927 stored, 1929 scrapped
2 HÅKANTORP Tank locomotive C t aNydqvist och Holm, Trollhättan 81
1877		 1893 to Lidköping – Skara – Stenstorps Järnväg No. 6; 1916 No. 46, scrapped in 1933

The company soon ran into financial problems and had to file for bankruptcy in 1886 .

Acquisition by Lidköping – Skara – Stenstorps Järnväg

Between 1886 and 1891 Lidköping – Skara – Stenstorps Järnväg (LSSJ) tried several times to acquire the HLJ at auction, which only succeeded the third time. LSSJ raised 350,000 kroner and built a bridge over the Lidan River to connect both parts of the business. After the bridge was opened and operations began on June 6, 1893, Lidköping V station was closed.

In 1902 LSSJ sold the previously purchased HLJ with the vehicles acquired at the time to the city of Lidköping. The 1910 bill showed construction costs of 824,700 kroner, of which the vehicles had a share of 140,400 kroner. the share capital was 427,205 crowns. Lidköping was the seat of the joint stock company.

After the opening of the Håkantorp – Tumleberg section through Västergötland – Göteborgs järnvägsaktiebolag (VGJ) in 1900, through trains ran from Forshem via Håkantorp to Tumleberg.

The city of Linköping transferred the HLJ together with the Kinnekulle – Lidköpings järnväg in 1912 to Lidköpings järnvägar .

nationalization

In 1948, as part of the general nationalization of the railway, the line was taken over by Statens Järnvägar like other narrow-gauge lines in Skaraborgs län, integrated into their network and organization, and converted to standard gauge in 1953.

The remains of the port railway in Lidköping were closed due to the expansion of an industrial area.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tumleberg – Håkantorp – Lidköping. Bandel 426, SJ district 36 bs. In: banvakt.se. Retrieved April 3, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b c Association of Central European Railway Administrations (ed.): Station directory of the European railways . (formerly Dr. KOCH's station directory). 52nd edition. Barthol & Co., Berlin-Wilmersdorf 1939.
  3. ^ Järnvägshistoriskt Forum - train stations and stops
  4. ↑ Old postcard of the train station
  5. ↑ Gamla Järnvägshistoriskt Forum - station description (Swedish)
  6. ↑ a b Lidköping – Håkantorps järnväg . In: Theodor Westrin (Ed.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 16 : Lee – Luvua . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1912, Sp. 383 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
  7. ↑ Locomotives to Pospichal
  8. ↑ Historiskt om Svenska Järnvägar
  9. ↑ Stig Lundin Tidtabell Kinnekulle - Lidköping - Tumleberg sommaren 1912
  10. ↑ Järnvägar i historien 1948
  11. ^ Lidköping — Håkantorps järnväg, spårvidd. Svensk Uppslagsbok 1955. In: svenskuppslagsbok.se. Archived from the original ; Retrieved May 1, 2016 (Swedish).
  12. ↑ (PDF; 9.5 MB) Fördjupning av översiktsplan, 2010. (PDF) Retrieved on February 9, 2016 .

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