Stockholm – Västerås – Bergslagens Järnvägar

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Tillberga SWB station around 1900

Stockholm – Västerås – Bergslagens Järnvägar , abbreviated SWB , later SVB , was a private Swedish railway company . It was founded in 1871 under the name Stockholm-Westerås-Bergslagens Jernvägsaktiebolag to open up the Bergslagen mining region with railway lines and to connect it with the port city of Västerås on the north bank of Lake Mälaren and with the rest of the Swedish railway network. Until it was nationalized in 1944, SWB developed into one of Sweden's largest private railway companies.

history

prehistory

The Bergslagen region north and northwest of Lake Mälaren has been an important mining area for centuries, where silver, copper and iron, among other things, were extracted. Until the opening of the Strömsholm Canal in 1795, the raw materials were only transported to the port cities on the Mälaren by arduous land routes.

In 1854 the Swedish Reichstag decided to set up a network of state trunk railways. Additional routes should be financed and built by the private sector. First of all, consideration was given to building the route from Stockholm to Gothenburg, called Västra stambanan , on the northern bank of the Mälaren. In 1857, however, the decision was made to build the route over the shortest possible route and thus south of Lake Mälaren. As a result, several private initiatives were started to develop the northern bank of Mälaren, the cities of Örebro and Västerås as well as the Bergslagen region by railway lines and to connect them with Stockholm.

Foundation and route construction

In 1871 the company was founded under the name Stockholm-Westerås-Bergslagens Jernvägsaktiebolag . Under initially difficult economic circumstances, a standard-gauge railway line from Tillberga north of Västerås to Köping was built and opened in 1875. In Köping the line connected to the existing line of the company Köping – Hults Järnväg to Örebro since 1867 . Also in 1875, the Sala – Tillberga järnvägsaktiebolag line was opened from Sala to Tillberga. A year later the Tillberga – Ängelsberg and Tillberga – Tomteboda routes followed. In Tomteboda there was a connection to the route Stockholm – Uppsala – Krylbo – Storvik, then known as Norra Stambanan.

In 1899 a connecting line was opened between Ramnäs on the Tillberga – Ängelsberg line and Kolbäck on the Tillberga – Köping line. This enabled trains between Köping / Örebro and Ängelsberg to bypass the Tillberga junction. In the same year, the extension of the route northwards via Ängelsberg to Fagersta was opened for freight traffic. In 1900 the line reached Ludvika , at the same time the section to Fagersta was opened for passenger traffic. In 1907, the construction of the track in Vansbro was completed in the north.

The SWB route network also grew through acquisitions. On January 1, 1905, Sala – Tillberga järnvägsaktiebolag was bought after SWB had already carried out almost the entire operation on its route. Enköping-Heby-Runhällens Järnvägs AB (EHRJ) followed in 1908 and Norbergs Järnväg in 1922.

nationalization

In 1944, like many other railway companies, SWB was converted into a state company with the same name in the course of the general nationalization of the railway in Sweden . A year later it was incorporated into the state railway company Statens Järnvägar (SJ).

Route network

SWB route network (marked in red)

At the time of its greatest expansion, the SWB route network comprised the following routes:

Line closures

date Route section length Type of traffic Remarks
05/01/1909 Enköping - Enköping hamn 3 km passenger traffic
04/01/1952 Heby - Runhallen 10 km passenger traffic
10/01/1959 Enköping - Fjärdhundra 18 km Total traffic
10/01/1959 Fjärdhundra - Heby 20 km passenger traffic
09/01/1962 Ängelsberg - Kärrgruvan 18 km passenger traffic
09/01/1963 Ludvika - Nyhammar 23 km passenger traffic
09/01/1963 Nyhammar - Björbo 24 km Total traffic
11/01/1965 Kolbäck - Surahammar 17 km passenger traffic Recommissioning 11/10/1991
11/01/1965 Surahammar - Ramnäs 7 km Total traffic Resumption of goods traffic in 1990, passenger traffic in 1991
10/01/1968 Fjärdhundra - Heby 20 km Total traffic
01/01/1977 Enköping - Enköping hamn 3 km Total traffic
10/01/1985 Ludvika - Nyhammar 23 km Total traffic
10/01/1990 Ramnäs - Tillberga 28 km Freight transport Instead, goods traffic from Surahammar to Ramnäs is resumed
11/01/1990 Snyten - Kärrgruvan 28 km Total traffic
11/06/1991 Ramnäs - Tillberga 28 km Total traffic Therefor resumption of passenger traffic Ramnäs – Kolbäck

Web links

Commons : Stockholm – Västerås – Bergslagens Järnvägar  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ (Stockholm-) Karlberg-Enköping-Västerås-Arboga-Hovsta (-Örebro). Fact & Historia. In: järnväg.net. Retrieved October 5, 2017 (Swedish).
  2. ↑ (Västerås-) Kolbäck-Fagersta-Ludvika. Fact & Historia. In: järnväg.net. Retrieved October 5, 2017 (Swedish).
  3. ↑ Lars-Olof Karlsson: Järnvägar i historien, Handel år 1875. In: historiskt.nu. March 31, 1996, Retrieved October 5, 2017 (Swedish).
  4. ^ Lars-Olof Karlsson: Järnvägar i historien, Händelser år 1876. In: historiskt.nu. March 31, 1996, Retrieved October 5, 2017 (Swedish).
  5. ^ Lars-Olof Karlsson: Järnvägar i historien, Händelser år 1899. In: historiskt.nu. March 31, 1996, Retrieved October 5, 2017 (Swedish).
  6. ^ Lars-Olof Karlsson: Järnvägar i historien, Händelser år 1900. In: historiskt.nu. March 31, 1996, Retrieved October 5, 2017 (Swedish).
  7. ↑ Sala – Tillberga järnväg . In: Theodor Westrin, Ruben Gustafsson Berg, Eugen Fahlstedt (eds.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 29 : Tidsekvation – trompe . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1919, Sp. 545-546 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
  8. ↑ Ängelsberg-Snyten-Kärrgruvan. Fact & Historia. In: järnväg.net. Retrieved December 22, 2017 (Swedish).
  9. ^ Lars-Olof Karlsson: Järnvägar i historien, Händelser år 1909. In: historiskt.nu. March 31, 1996, Retrieved December 19, 2017 (Swedish).
  10. ^ Lars-Olof Karlsson: Järnvägar i historien, Händelser år 1952. In: historiskt.nu. March 31, 1996, Retrieved December 19, 2017 (Swedish).
  11. ↑ a b Lars-Olof Karlsson: Järnvägar i historien, Händelser år 1959. In: historiskt.nu. March 31, 1996. Retrieved December 20, 2017 (Swedish).
  12. ^ Lars-Olof Karlsson: Järnvägar i historien, Händelser år 1962. In: historiskt.nu. March 31, 1996, Retrieved December 19, 2017 (Swedish).
  13. ^ A b Lars-Olof Karlsson: Järnvägar i historien, Händelser år 1963. In: historiskt.nu. March 31, 1996, Retrieved December 19, 2017 (Swedish).
  14. ^ A b Lars-Olof Karlsson: Järnvägar i historien, Händelser år 1965. In: historiskt.nu. March 31, 1996, Retrieved December 19, 2017 (Swedish).
  15. ^ Lars-Olof Karlsson: Järnvägar i historien, Händelser år 1968. In: historiskt.nu. March 31, 1996. Retrieved December 20, 2017 (Swedish).
  16. ^ Lars-Olof Karlsson: Järnvägar i historien, Händelser år 1977. In: historiskt.nu. March 31, 1996. Retrieved December 20, 2017 (Swedish).
  17. ^ Lars-Olof Karlsson: Järnvägar i historien, Händelser år 1985. In: historiskt.nu. March 31, 1996, Retrieved December 19, 2017 (Swedish).
  18. ↑ a b Lars-Olof Karlsson: Järnvägar i historien, Händelser år 1990. In: historiskt.nu. March 31, 1996, Retrieved December 19, 2017 (Swedish).
  19. ^ Lars-Olof Karlsson: Järnvägar i historien, Händelser år 1991. In: historiskt.nu. March 31, 1996, Retrieved December 19, 2017 (Swedish).