Sala – Tillberga railway line

Sala – Tillberga
Ransta train station
Route length:	33 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	15 kV 16 2 / 3 Hz  ~
Top speed:	130 km / h
Legend Sala – Gävle railway from Gävle Mora – Uppsala railway from Mora 0.0 Sala 51.6  m ö.h. Railway line Mora – Uppsala to Uppsala Lillån 26.9 Silvervallen 23.4 Hättskär hpr 22.0 Fredsbrunn hpr (1938–1965) 20.4 Norrhusta hpr (1938–1967) 19.0 Tärna (1875–1968) 14.9 Ransta 19.0 Labacken (1904–1964) Lillån 8.4 Vrian hpr (1940-1967) 4.6 Hedensberg (1875-1967) 2.7 Tillberga omformarstation (1946 / 47–1997) Mälarbanan from Enköping (until 1996) Tillberga depå 0.0 100.7 Tillberga (PV until 2009) after Ramnäs (until 1993) Mälarbanan from Enköping (since 1996) 105.8 Västerås norra (until 1945 Finslatten) Harbor track 107 Västerås C Mälarbanan to Örebro Explanation: (hpr) = Hållplats för rälsbussar ( German  stop for rail buses )

The Sala – Tillberga railway is a standard-gauge, single-track railway line in the province of Västmanland in Sweden . Today it connects the cities of Sala and Västerås and thus the Mora – Uppsala and Stockholm – Örebro railway lines .

history

Sala – Tillberga järnvägsaktiebolag

The Sala – Tillberga järnvägsaktiebolag received the concession for the construction of the line on May 1, 1874. Claes Adolf Adelsköld made the drawings for the 28 km long line . The provisional start of operations took place on December 1, 1875, and general traffic six days later. The SaTJ company abbreviation was not official.

From the start, however, operations were almost entirely carried out by the Stockholm – Västerås – Bergslagens Järnvägar company (SWB, later SVB). On January 1, 1905, the SaTJ was bought by the SVB.

nationalization

As part of the general nationalization of the railways in Sweden, the line was transferred together with the other lines of the SWB in 1944 to a state company with the same name SWB. A year later it was incorporated into the state railway company Statens Järnvägar (SJ). In 1955 the line was electrified.

In the 1960s, all intermediate stops except Ransta and Tillberga were gradually abandoned.

business

The Tillberga station lost its function as a railway junction in the 1990s . First, in 1993, the route to Ramnäs and Ängelsberg was replaced by a new connecting curve at Kolbäck, closed and dismantled. In 1996 the Mälarbana was relocated to a new route south of Tillberga as part of the double-track expansion between Tortuna and Västerås. The trains to and from Sala stopped in Tillberga until 2009, after which the station was closed to passenger traffic. Since then it has only served as a connection for the local railway repair shop .

Today's operation

The only remaining scheduled stopover since 2009 is Ransta, where train crossings can also take place. Today the passenger traffic is carried out on behalf of the regional transport company Mälardalstrafik as part of the Linköping - Norrköping - Eskilstuna - Västerås - Sala connection. Railcars of the Bombardier Regina and X12 series run every hour on weekdays, although some trains do not stop in Ransta, and every two hours on weekends and holidays.

future

The local transport committee of the province of Västmanland is planning to reopen the Tillberga train station for passenger traffic and to set up a P&R area as soon as planned housing projects in Tillberga are completed.

Web links

• (Västerås C–) Västerås Norra – Tillberga – Sala. In: järnväg.net. Retrieved November 13, 2019 (Swedish). 

Individual evidence

1. ^ Sala – Tillberga. Bandel 219. In: banvakt.se. Retrieved November 8, 2019 (Swedish). * Kjell Byström: 219 Sala - Tillberga. In: historiskt.nu. May 12, 2004, accessed December 2, 2019 . 
    
2. ↑ JNB 2020 Bilaga 3 E STH per sträcka. (PDF) Utgåva 2019-09-23. trafikverket.se, December 2, 2019, p. 135 , accessed on December 2, 2019 (Swedish). 
3. ↑ John Eklund: Tillberga omformarstation. In: elmuseum.se. Retrieved December 2, 2019 (Swedish). 
4. ↑ Bengt Dahlberg: Stadler takes over Swedtrac from Knorr-Bremse. Press release Stadler. January 18, 2018, accessed December 2, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Svenska Järnvägsföreningen 1876–1926 . SRJ till ÖVJ. tape IV . Centraltryckeriet, Stockholm 1926, p. 103 .
6. ↑ Järnvägsdata . 2nd Edition. 1992, p. 313 .
7. ↑ Sala – Tillberga järnväg . In: Theodor Westrin, Ruben Gustafsson Berg, Eugen Fahlstedt (eds.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 29 : Tidsekvation – trompe . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1919, Sp. 545-546 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
8. ↑ ^{a b} (Västerås C–) Västerås Norra – Tillberga – Sala. Tobacco shop. In: järnväg.net. Retrieved November 13, 2019 (Swedish). 
9. ↑ Tågtidtabeller. (pdf) nr 56. In: resrobot.se. Samtrafiken i Sverige AB, 23 August 2019, accessed on 13 November 2019 (Swedish). 
10. ↑ Monica Elfström: planner på tågstopp i Tillberga. Sveriges Radio, January 19, 2019, accessed November 13, 2019 (Swedish).