Railway Museum Grängesberg
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Railway Museum Grängesberg |
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Grängesberg 
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The Railway Museum Grängesberg ( Swedish : GrängesBergsBanornas Järnvägsmuseum (GBBJ) or Lokmuseet , German: "The Locomotive Museum") is located two kilometers southwest of the center of Grängesberg in the Swedish municipality of Ludvika , on the Bergslag diagonal towards Örebro .
history
The GBBJ was founded in 1969 to preserve the locomotive and wagons of the Trafikaktiebolaget-Grängesberg-Oxelösunds Järnvägar (TGOJ). The location is the locomotive sheds at the freight yard of the ore railway from 1928. The Grängesberg Railway Museum is part of the Bergslagen Ekomuseum .
The museum has around 160 rail vehicles from the years 1850 to 1980 as well as several locomotive sheds, signal boxes and other exhibitions. The track length in the station is a total of 14 kilometers. Among other things, the museum has the only steam turbine locomotive in the world that is still operational , the M3t no 71 from 1930. It was renovated by the museum in 1981 for the 125th anniversary of Statens Järnvägar (SJ). The M3t locomotive has a measured pulling force of 22 tons, making it Sweden's most powerful steam locomotive. In one of the locomotive sheds there is also a rail-bound Volvo that served as an inspection vehicle. It is a Volvo cab from 1953. The interior of the vehicle is an unusual sight; the Volvo has no steering wheel.
photos
ÖKJ 902 wooden wagon
Volvo inspection car
Car TGOJ suffered Co nr 31
Turbine locomotive M3t no 71
Web links
- GBBJ website (Swedish)