Bergslagets communication led
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 KORSÅN locomotive
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| Route number : | ÅJ or ÅWJ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Route length: | 15 km / 3 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Gauge : | 891 mm ( Swedish 3-foot track ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Bergslagets kommunikationsled ( German : Verkehrsweg Bergslagen ) between Wintjern and Korsån was a transport link in Sweden . This connection consisted of the railway line Wintjern – Svartbäcken ( gauge 891 mm), the horse-drawn railway line at Korså Bruk (gauge 891 mm) and two shipping lines over the lakes Hinsen and Hyen .
Wintjern – Svartbäcken railway line
Bergslagets kommunikationsled was built by Stora Kopparberg and was only intended for its own freight transport . The track width of the Wintjern – Svartbäcken railway was 891 mm, the line was 18 kilometers long and was opened in 1883.
Originally, the line began in Wintjern about a kilometer away from the later Wintjern train station of Dala – Ockelbo – Norrsundets Järnväg (DONJ). The route then led via Åg to the Svartbäcken loading area on Lake Hinsen. In 1887 the line was connected to the DONJ station.
ÅJ vehicles
| number | Surname | design type | Wheel alignment | Manufacturer | Fabr.-No./ year of construction |
Special |
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| SKB 1 | ÅG | Tank locomotive | C. | Kristinehamns Mekaniska Verkstad , Kristinehamn | 30/ 1883 |
handed over to mine management in Wintjern, scrapped |
| SKB 2 | Tysken | Tank locomotive | 1 B | Orenstein & Koppel , Berlin |
1900 |
scrapped |
| KORSÅN | Tank locomotive | C. | Vagn- & Maskinfabriksaktiebolaget Falun , Falun | 21/ 1902 |
equipped with a trailing axle due to poor running properties, then wheel arrangement C 1; 1948 to Dannemora gruvor , in service until the end of the 1950s, 1961 to the Jädraås – Tallås Järnväg museum railway , operational |
On kommunikationsled Bergslagets ore were transported and coal to the blast furnaces in Åg. Pig iron was produced there. This was then transported by train to Svartbäcken, where it was loaded onto barges that were towed across Lake Hinsen. The goods were then sent to Korså Bruk, where the pig iron had been partially processed since 1838. The heyday of iron processing in Korså Bruk was during the 1880s and 1890s. During this time, between 2,600 and 3,000 tons of iron were processed per year.
This was followed by a three-kilometer horse-drawn tram to get to Lake Hyen. Reloaded onto barges, the goods were transported across the lake to be transported from Korsån on the Falun – Gävle railway line .
The blast furnaces in Åg closed in 1928. This meant that the railway was no longer required for iron transport. From this point on, only wood and charcoal were transported. The route was soon superfluous for the declining traffic. First, the six-kilometer-long section from Svartbäcken – Brattberget was shut down and dismantled in 1940. The same fate befell the five-kilometer Brattberget – Åg section in 1946. The last stretch between Åg and Wintjern was closed in 1947/48.
The charcoal transport wagons L 509-521, which could already be freely used after joining the DONJ, were sold to the company in 1936. The only passenger car on the route, the kungavagnen ( King's Car ), was parked in the Åg engine shed . After a while he was taken to Korså Bruk, where he stayed until 1967. Then it was given to the Jädraås – Tallås Järnväg Museum Railway . The car is operational today.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Construction list from Kristinehamns Verkstad
- ↑ Technical data of the locomotive. Jädraås - Tallås Järnväg, accessed October 17, 2015 (Swedish).