Lidköping – Tun railway line

Lidköping-Do
Lidköping station 2010
Route length:	28 km
Gauge :	891 mm ( Swedish 3-foot track )
Minimum radius :	200 m
Top speed:	45 km / h
Operating points and routes
Legend Lidköping – Forshem railway from Forshem Lidköping – Skara – Stenstorps Järnväg from Skara o, 0 Lidköping Lidan Lidköpings hamnbana 0.3 Lidköping V. Railway line Håkantorp – Lidköping to Håkantorp 3.2 Jakobstorp 5.9 Björnegården to Björnegårdens grusgrop, 1.1 km, (1908–1942), from 1937 Rådaås Månslundavägen (1927–1935) 10.2 Örslösa Hallfaravägen (1927-1935) Bergspåret 14.3 Kjallshed 16.7 Norra Kedum 20.1 Tådene (originally Tådened ) Digrid (from 1927) 21.5 Fathers day 24 Frielsberg 25.0 Friel 27.7 To do

The Lidköping – Tun railway line ( Lidköping-Kållands järnväg or Tunbanan ) was a 28-kilometer narrow-gauge railway in the Swedish province of Skaraborgs län and the historic province of Västergötland on Lake Vänern . It was built by Lidköping – Kållands järnvägaktiebolag .

history

Between 1850 and 1900, railway construction was strongly promoted in Sweden. During this time, many narrow-gauge railways were built in Skaraborgs to provide access to the region. However, the railroad had not yet reached Örslösa, Tådene and Tun, but the horse and carriage seemed out of date. So plans were made for a standard gauge line between Lidköping and Grästorp in order to gain access to the state railway line to Uddevalla . Landowners and representatives of the communities supported the project. Grain, lime, wood, peat and passengers promised profit.

Lidköping – Kållands järnvägaktiebolag

So Lidköping-Kållands järnvägaktiebolag was founded to realize the project. However, the shares found little interest in railway construction. The money was only enough to finance the three Swedish miles of narrow-gauge stretch between Lidköping and Tun. The company's shareholders began construction of the route despite the financial adversity. The share capital was 337,700 crowns .

Traffic to the "obetydliga platsen" ( insignificant place ) Tun on the Kålland peninsula in the south of Lake Vänern was opened on November 12, 1908. According to the final accounts for 1910, the construction costs were 853,000 crowns, while the vehicles cost 153,000 crowns.

In addition, the company owned the concessions for the construction of the twelve-kilometer Tun – Grästorp line to Uddevalla – Vänersborg – Herrljunga järnväg (UWHJ) and for an eleven-kilometer continuation between Grästorp and Hallebo on the future Trollhättan – Nossebro railway . However, both routes were not built.

vehicles

The company went into liquidation as early as 1925 and the Swedish state took over the route. On December 2, 1928, the railway was sold to the city of Lidköping. From then on, traffic on the route was carried out by Lidköpings järnvägar .

As part of the general nationalization of the railway , the state also bought this line in 1939. In the same year all traffic was stopped due to the low usage.

Part of the line was re-gauged to standard gauge and remained as an industrial connection. In 2010 it was decided to dismantle the line in the direction of the Tofta industrial area. The last remaining parts of the route disappeared. Between Tun and Tådene, parts of the embankment have been used for private roads.

In 1908, on the way to Björnegården gravel pit, two people came between the wagons of the train and were fatally injured.

number	Surname	design type	Wheel alignment	Manufacturer	Fabr.-No./ year of construction	Special
1	KÅLLAND	Tank locomotive	1 C t	Nydqvist & Holm , Trollhättan	890/ 1908	Rebuilt in 1930 to 1 C 1 t, 1928 to Lidköpings järnvägar , No. 9, 1948 to Statens Järnvägar , SJ S13p 3079, retired in 1955
2	LIDKÖPING	Tank locomotive	C 2 t	Kristinehamns Mekaniska Verkstad , Kristinehamn	9/ 1874	Converted to C 1 t in 1892, in 1907 by Lidköping – Håkantorps Järnväg (no. 2 there), in 1909 back to HLJ, no. 2, retired in 1916
5	ÅSE	Tank locomotive	1 C t	Nydqvist & Holm, Trollhättan	934/ 1909	1934 converted to 1 C 1 t, 1928 to Lidköpings järnvägar , No. 5, 1948 to Statens Järnvägar , SJ S8p 3102, taken out of service in 1954
15th	SNABB	Tank locomotive	1 B t	Nydqvist & Holm, Trollhättan	295/ 1889	1908 sold by Hultsfred – Västerviks Järnväg , No. 15
16	RAPP	Tank locomotive	1 B t	Nydqvist & Holm, Trollhättan	296/ 1889	1908 from Hultsfred – Västerviks Järnväg , no. 16, 1909 to Kavlås kalkbruk, Övertorp
4th		Steam railcar	1 A 1	Arlöfs Mekaniska Verkstad & Waggonfabrik , Arlöv	5/ 1909	1928 at Lidköpings järnvägar , No. 10, retired in 1937

literature

• Åke Bergmer, Ingemar Landin :, Tunbanan. Skara-Lundsbrunns Järnvägar, Mariestad 2002, ISBN 91-631-2932-9 .

Web links

• Film about the former and existing railway lines from 1948 ( Memento from April 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lidköping - Do. Bandel 428. In: banvakt.se. Retrieved March 26, 2015 (Swedish). 
2. ↑ Åke Bergmer, Ingemar Landin: Tunbanan. Histories from Lidköping – Kållands Järnväg. Skara – Lundsbrunns Järnvägar Verlag, Skara Järnvägsmuseum.
3. ↑ Lidköping-Tuns järnväg . In: Theodor Westrin (Ed.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 16 : Lee – Luvua . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1912, Sp. 383-384 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
4. ↑ Lidköping-Kållands järnväg . In: Vetenskapsakademi (ed.): Sveriges statskalender för år 1925 . Almqvist & Wiksell boktryckeri AB, 1925, ZDB -ID 205099-7 , p. 1164 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
5. ↑ Järnvägar i historien. (Swedish).
6. ↑ Lidköping – Kållands järnväg. In: Svensk Uppslagsbok. 1955, 2nd edition. Förlagshuset Norden, Malmö 1955, svenskuppslagsbok.se ( memento from April 18, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ).
7. ↑ Annual table of the railways of Sweden. (Swedish).
8. ↑ Lidköpings kommun SAMMANTRÄDESPROTOKOLL 2010-02-23, § 26. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on February 8, 2016 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  
9. ↑ Connecting railway Björnegården (Swedish). (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on February 8, 2016 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  
10. ↑ Lidköping – Kållands Järnväg (LJ) to Pospichal
11. ↑ Delivery list Waggonfabriken Arlöv. (Swedish).