Skånska Järnvägar

Gärsnäs – Brösarp

Museum train at Vitaby

Route length:

27 km

Gauge :

1435 mm ( standard gauge )

Maximum slope :

16.7 ‰

Minimum radius :

294 m

Top speed:

40 km / h

Legend

		former route from Degeberga
	109.274	Brösarp (1900)
		Verkeån
	113.013	Ravlundabro (1901)
	116.523	Vitaby (1901)
	121.910	Scoutstugan
	122.572 14	Saint Olof
		Railway line Tomelilla – Brösarp to Tomelilla
	10	Grönhult
		Gravel pit
	7th	Gyllebosjö
	5	Gyllebo (from 1978 Östra Vemmerlöv )
	3	Virrestad
		Ystad – Simrishamn railway from Simrishamn
	0	Gärsnäs
		Ystad – Simrishamn railway to Tomelilla
		Railway line Köpingebro – Gärsnäs to Köpingebro

Skånska Järnvägar is a Swedish museum railway . It runs on two sections of former private railways that were taken over by Statens Järnvägar in 1941 and later shut down for regular operations.

Skånska Järnvägar AB

The owner and operator of the entire Gärsnäs - Brösarp railway was or is the museum railway company Skånska Järnvägar AB . The associated museum railway association Museiföreningen Skånska Järnvägar was founded in 1969 and made its first train journeys in 1971.

stretch

Gärsnäs – Sankt Olof railway line

The Gärsnäs – Sankt Olof section of the route was built in 1900 by Järnvägsaktiebolaget Gärsnäs – S: t Olof and opened in 1902. In 1971 Skånska Järnvägar carried out its first special trips on this section of the route. A year later, the line was officially closed and only museum trains traveled on. In 1994 the museum railway company took over the route from the municipality of Simrishamn .

After two derailments in 2008, museum operations on this section of the route ended.

Tomelilla – Brösarp railway line

The Tomelilla – Brösarp railway was built in 1901 by Järnvägsaktiebolaget Ystad – Brösarp and taken over by SJ in 1941. The section between Sankt Olof and Brösarp was closed for official passenger traffic on January 1, 1972 and then only used by museum trains.

business

The museum railway owns a large number of steam locomotives from various Swedish railway companies as well as operational passenger cars .

During the summer months the steam trains run every Sunday, in the high season (beginning of July – beginning of August) also on Wednesdays and Thursdays.