Karungi – Övertorneå railway line

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Karungi – Övertorneå
Course book range : 152 and 155, 33 (1982)
Route length: 47 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Top speed: 50 km / h
Operating points and routes
Legend
   
 46.617 Övertorneå
   
 45,400 Stop stables (1957–12 May 1968)
   
 44,400 Stop stables (1962-30 May 1976)
   
 43,460 Ruskola (from 1928)
   
 42,650 Stop stables (1959-30 May 1976)
   
 41.675 Stop stables (students) (1962–30 May 1967)
   
 41,250 Stop stables (1958–12 May 1968)
   
 39.671 Alculls
   
 34.400 Norra Niemis (from 1937)
   
 33.800 Armasjoki
   
 32.972 Luppio
   
 31,517 Stop stables (1959–1 June 1969)
   
 29.500 Stop stables (1959–12 May 1968)
   
 27.796 Hedenäset
   
 26.300 Koivukylä (from 1937)
   
 25.176 Hietaniemi (from 1928)
   
 Päräoja
   
 23.100 Backesta
   
 Myllyoja
   
 21.400 Stop stables (1957– June 1, 1969)
   
 20.200 Norra Risudden (1937-12 May 1968)
   
 18.288 Risudden
   
 17.100 Stop stables (1956–12 May 1968)
   
 15.338 Potila (1929-18 June 1973)
   
 13.700 Stop stables (1958–12 May 1968)
   
 11.008 Skogskärr
   
 10.000 Stop stables (1959–31 May 1970)
   
 9.000 Korpikylä (from 1936)
   
 Kartijoki
   
 6.578 Tornesel (1928–12 May 1968)
   
 4.500 Stop stables (1955–12 May 1968)
   
 3.900 Lövheden (1914-1920)
   
 3.196 Lövheden (June 1, 1930– May 31 , 1970)
   
 Matujoki
   
 1.700 Stop stables (pupils) (1949–1955, 1958–12 May 1968)
   
 1.600 Karungi old train station (1914-1916)
   
 0.800 Stop stables (1955–20 May 1968)
   
 0.500 Stop stables (students) (1940–1955)
   
 from Morjärv
   
 0.000 Karungi (from 1915)
   
 to Haparanda

The Karungi – Övertorneå railway was a branch line of the Swedish Haparandabana .

history

As early as 1911, the Swedish parliament decided to build a railway along the Torne älv from Karungi to Matarengi kyrkby, today's Övertorneå . The railway line was built in 1913/14 and Övertorneå station opened for general traffic on December 15, 1914. From the end of the 1930s, the almost 47 kilometer long railway line was mostly served by a railcar. Plans to extend the route to Pajala, 100 kilometers to the north , failed at the latest after the triumph of the automobile .

Numerous anonymous stops were set up along the route, which only stopped when required and sometimes only for school traffic.

A first suggestion to shut down the line was made on January 20, 1976 with a petition from MEPs Eivor Marklund and Alf Lövenborg to the Swedish Reichstag.

Passenger traffic was stopped on August 20, 1984. Even before that, from May 1981, freight traffic was limited to one train per day. In fact, from May 23, 1971, freight traffic was only used when required. On June 1, 1986 all traffic was stopped. A few years later - in 1992 - the dismantling of the tracks began. With the construction of the new Haparandabahn in 2012, Karungi station also lost its rail connection.

Company facilities

Haparanda , the real goal of Haparandabana , was only achieved in 1915. Therefore, the first train station in Karungi was built in a northerly direction. Only later was a new train station built to the south of it and connected to it with another junction to the south. The direct north-south track enabled continuous multiple units between Övertorneå and Haparanda in the 1960s and 1970s.

At the end of the line in Övertorneå there was a 15-meter turntable , a coal bunker and a two-tier locomotive shed . In later years garages were built to accommodate the intercity buses to Pajala.

photos

  • Karungi train station

  • Övertorneå train station

  • Armasjoki Bridge

Web links

Commons : Karungi – Övertorneå  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karungi – Övertorneå. Bandel 16, SJ district V. In: banvakt.se. Retrieved March 28, 2017 (Swedish). 16 Karungi – Övertorneå. In: samlingsportalen.se. Retrieved March 28, 2017 (Swedish).
  2. ↑ om föreslagen nedläggning av järnvägslinjerna Övertorneå-Karungi och Gällivare-Arvidsjaur, mm In: riksdagen.se. Retrieved March 28, 2017 (Swedish).
  3. ↑ Claes Thure Moberg: Tidtabellen. In: tydal.nu. April 11, 2004, Retrieved March 28, 2017 (Swedish).
  4. ↑ Karungi – Övertorneå. Sketches of the train stations. In: bangardar.se. Retrieved March 28, 2017 (Swedish).