Fiskeby Järnväg

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Fiskeby – Norrköping
Route length: 5.5 km
Gauge : 891 mm ( Swedish 3-foot track )
Legend
   
 Ship from Finspång to Fiskeby
   
 0.0 Fiskeby
   
 5.5 Norrköping hamn
Crane in Fiskeby
Crane in the port of Norrkoping
Fiskeby: The road largely follows the old railway line

The Fiskeby Järnväg was part of the transport route from the arms factories (including Finspångs styckebruk ) in Finspång and the area around Lotorp and Hällesta to the cannon square in the port of Norrköping .

history

The railway was commissioned by Carl Edvard Ekman , owner of Finspångsverken , in 1854. It was part of Fiskeby jernvägs- och ångbåts AB . From Finspång the goods, including the weapons produced, were brought by barge across the Skutbo and Glan lakes to Fiskeby , where the horse-drawn railway between Fiskeby and the port of Norrköping formed the last part of this route. The Finspång – Lotorp railway was also part of this transport route, from which some of the freight wagons used came.

The Fiskeby Järnväg was planned and built by Carl Edward Norström , who was also involved in the construction of the Östra stambanan between Nässjö and Katrineholm . It was a narrow-gauge railway with a gauge of 891 mm ( three Swedish feet ) and a length of 5.5 km. A road was built on the old railway line between Fiskeby bruk and Finspångsvägen, which is now called Fiskebyvägen .

In 1872, at the urging of Carl Ekman, a train station was built on the Eksund farm on the newly built Östra stambanan . The station was also named Eksund. It was only about ten meters from the southern shore of Lake Glan at the transition to Motala stöm . A harbor was built at the station, to which the steamship Glan von Finspång brought its cargo. These were then transported by rail after reloading.

As a result, operations on the horse-drawn railroad ceased 18 years after its start in October 1872. The port of Eksund continued to be used until the shipping line on the lakes was replaced in 1885 by a narrow-gauge railway, the Finspång – Norsholm (FNJ) line. This line was also built at the instigation of Ekman. The FNJ later became part of the Norra Östergötlands Järnvägar (NÖJ) and met the Östra stambanan at the two stations Kimstad and Norsholm. In Norsholm there was a port on the Göta Canal .

At the old quay in Fiskeby there is an original crane that was used to load and unload the ships. There is a copy of this crane on the quay in Norrköping.

literature

  • "Från Östra stambanan till Ostlänken / Götalandsbanan" - Bengt-Arne Bengtsson 2007 ( ISBN 978-91-85487-63-9 )

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