Orsa – Falun railway line
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 Garsås train station is now a café
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| Route number : | Falun-Grycksbo: 34 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 104 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Power system : | Rättvik-Mora 15 kV, 16.7 Hz ~ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Top speed: | Bandel 334 Grycksbo– (Falun central): 30 km / h |
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The Orsa – Falun railway is a normal-gauge railway in Sweden about 104 kilometers long . The only partially passable route is the main route of the former Falun-Rättvik-Mora Järnvägsaktiebolag (FRMJ).
Falun – Rättvik – Mora Järnvägsaktiebolag
As early as 1879 and 1880 there were considerations to build a railway line to Insjön and on to Lake Siljan. For this purpose, Siljans Järnvägsaktiebolag was founded in 1881 , which opened the line between Insjön and Borlänge in 1884 .
Beginning in 1885, specific plans for connecting were Rättvik on Siljan made. For this purpose, District President Curry had invited Treffenberg to a meeting on February 11, 1885, which commissioned the engineer J. Danielsson to plan a railway line between Falun and a square near Rättviks kyrka. These plans indicated that the construction of this line would cost 1.7 million crowns and generate an annual surplus of 60,000 crowns.
The mining company Stora Kopparbergs bergslag , the town of Gävle and the Gävle – Dala Järnvägsaktiebolag were considered as financiers for the construction . Stora Kopparbergs bergslag asked for a route to Mora for a financial contribution . As a result, a concession for the route from Falun to Mora was applied for. On December 18, 1885, Falun-Siljans Järnvägsaktiebolag was founded, which was renamed Falun-Rättviks Järnvägsaktiebolag (FRJ) a short time later . The application for a license was transferred to the renamed company, and approval was granted on April 2, 1886.
The FRJ board secured the financing of the planned route between Falun and Rättvik as well as the extension to Noret in the municipality of Mora. The license for this extension was granted on September 30, 1887. In 1888 the company changed its name again to Falun-Rättvik-Mora Järnvägsaktiebolag (FRMJ). In February 1889 this company applied for a further concession for a route from Mora Noret to Orsa , for which the Mora – Vänerns Järnväg (MVJ) had already applied. The Orsa Municipality chose the FRMJ, which received the concession on June 12, 1891.
Construction of the route
On September 29, 1887, under the engineer Carl Johan Jehander, construction work began on the 50-kilometer section between Falun and Rättvik. The section Falun - Sågmyra was opened to general traffic on November 12, 1889. On August 12, 1890, the Sågmyra – Rättvik section was released. The construction of the line cost 856,000 crowns. The Gävle – Dala Järnvägsaktiebolag (GDJ) provided locomotives and vehicles .
The next 38 kilometers between Rättvik and Mora Noret were built for 405,000 crowns. The opening for general traffic took place on August 2, 1891. Here, too, the GDJ provided the vehicles. The completion of the construction work was the 14-kilometer route from Mora Noret to Orsa, which was built for 189,000 crowns. After the opening of this section on August 1, 1892, King Oskar II inaugurated the entire route between Falun and Orsa on September 15.
On November 1, 1892, the Mora – Vänerns Järnväg (MVJ) completed the connection between Vansbro and Mora for general traffic. Between the railways of the FRMJ to Mora Noret and the MVJ to Mora was only the Österdalälven . A connection between the two lines has now been planned. On August 28, 1894, the concession for the Mora – Älvdalens järnvägsaktiebolag (MEJ) to be built Älvdalbahn between Älvdalen, Mora and Mora Noret was awarded. After negotiations, the MEJ gave the concession for the section between Mora and Mora Noret on March 15, 1895 to the FRMJ.
The FRMJ agreed with the local authorities to build a combined railway and road bridge over the Österdalälven, for which the state gave two thirds of the subsidy. On September 21, 1895, the connecting line between Mora and Mora Noret was put into operation, with the GDJ now taking over the operational tasks for the entire route.
The GDJ had a majority stake in the FRMJ from the start. After the takeover of all other shares, FRMJ was a wholly owned subsidiary of GDJ from 1903.
At the auction of the insolvent Mora-Älvdalens Järnvägsaktiebolag (MEJ) on May 26, 1908, the FRMJ won the bid for 480,000 kroner and was thus also the owner of the Älvdalsbahn . Formally, the administration and transport operations of the MEJ were taken over by the FRMJ on May 1, 1909.
On January 1, 1918, the SJ bought the Mora – Mora Noret – Orsa section to integrate it into the inland railway from Kristinehamn to Gällivare .
The FRMJ was dissolved as a railway company on January 1, 1920 and completely incorporated into the Gävle-Dala Järnvägsaktiebolag (GDJ).
Current condition
The section between Rättvik and Mora has been operated electrically since May 28, 1978 .
The northern part between Orsa and Mora is now part of the inland railway . The Mora – Rättvik section is part of the connection between Mora and Uppsala, known as Dalabanan since the railway lines were named by Banverket in 1990 .
On December 1, 1965, passenger traffic on the route between Falun and Grycksbo and all traffic on the route between Grycksbo and Rättvik were suspended. On September 1, 1987, the goods traffic between Falun Norra and Grycksbo followed and on June 1, 1990, the goods traffic between Falun C and Falun Norra.
The connection from Falun to Rättvik was interrupted in the mid-1960s when the line between Grycksbo and Rättvik was closed and dismantled between 1966 and 1967. Since then, all trains have been running on the route between Rättvik and Borlänge, where a new freight station was opened as a freight center for Dalarna in 1965 . The Grycksbo – Falun section was reopened for freight traffic on September 8, 2003 after Banverket, Stora Enso and Grycksbo pappersbruk had invested 50 million crowns in the renovation. Until 2008, the route was served by a daily freight train operated by Green Cargo , which mainly connected the paper mill in Grycksbo with the rail network. After the company changed hands in 2008, the company is no longer served by rail and the section is currently not being used as planned.
At around the same time, the steam locomotives were replaced by diesel traction. The T41 series was mainly used . In the 1970s, the T45 series was also launched . Between 1967 and 1973 there was a direct connection between Stockholm and Mora, on which class Y3 railcars were used.
In 1978 the section between Mora and Rättvik was electrified. Instead of the steel masts usually used in Sweden, the catenary was attached to tarred wooden masts.
Individual evidence
- ↑ JNB 2018 Bilaga 3rd E STH och medelhastighet per sträcka. (PDF) Utgåva 2017–12–08. trafikverket.se, March 12, 2018, p. 134 , accessed April 2, 2018 (Swedish).
- ↑ Falun-Rättvik. Bandel 185, SJ district 15 bs. In: banvakt.se. Retrieved October 13, 2013 (Swedish). Rättvik – Mora Noret – Mora. Bandel 187. In: banvakt.se. Retrieved October 13, 2013 (Swedish).
Web links
- History of the railway line (swedish)
- Details of the Falun – Rättvik section. In: banvakt.se. Retrieved October 13, 2013 (Swedish).
- Details of the Rättvik – Mora section. In: banvakt.se. Retrieved October 13, 2013 (Swedish).
- Borlänge-Rättvik-Mora. Siljansbanan. jarnvag.net, accessed February 2, 2016 (Swedish).
- Falun-Grycksbo. jarnvag.net, accessed February 2, 2016 (Swedish).