Mankellbron

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Mankell Bridge from the south
Left traffic light, right signal, both still on stop
Crossing over the Mankell Bridge

The Mankell Bridge ( Swedish : Mankellbron ) is a combined rail and road bridge on the Inland Railway in Sweden . It is located approx. 800 m south of Sveg station in the province of Jämtlands län at 356,631 km .

Description of the structure

The bridge leads over the Ljusnan . It consists of four truss bridges segments from steel , three of which with straight truss boxes, a segment in sheet form.

At both approaches to the bridge, the road and track will be merged into one lane. On the street side this is secured as a level crossing , on the track side by a signal . Both security systems are switched dependent on each other. While the bridge was previously secured by its own bridge keeper, today a train has to stop and a member of the train crew triggers the road-side closure from a stationary console.

history

The bridge was built by the private railway company Orsa – Härjeådalens Järnvägsaktiebolag , which was nationalized in 1919. The first train crossed the bridge on September 28, 1908, and scheduled rail operations across the bridge began on February 9, 1909.

The main load of road traffic today goes over the E 45 bridge 500 m downstream . The Mankell Bridge is largely only used for urban traffic. The Swedish Monument Authority rates the bridge as one of the most important structures on the Inland Railway. Today the Mankellbron is one of the two bridges that remained in the wake of the inland railway, on which mixed road and rail traffic takes place. The other bridge still in operation is the Piteälvsbron .

The bridge was named in 2006 after the Swedish writer Henning Mankell , who spent part of his childhood in Sveg.

literature

  • Inlandsbanan Turism AB (Ed.): Ombord. Inlandsbanan's 2014 on-board magazine .
  • Katarina Sandberg, Harald Sundlin: The Inlandsbanan. A railway line through the history of Sweden. A journey into the future . Before 2014 (excerpts from a Swedish- language publication in German ; source: provided by Inlandsbanan AB).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sandberg, p. 27.
  2. ↑ a b Inlandsbanan Turism AB: Ombord , p. 8.

Coordinates: 62 ° 1 ′ 45.4 ″  N , 14 ° 21 ′ 19.6 ″  E