TGOJ tobacco shop
| TGOJ Tobacco AB
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1931 |
| Seat | Eskilstuna , Sweden |
| Branch | Transport / logistics |
| Website | Green Cargo |
TGOJ Trafik AB is a Swedish rail freight company based in Eskilstuna . Today the company is a wholly owned subsidiary of the freight transport company Green Cargo and operates certain freight trains in Sweden under its own management and with its own locomotives. Home Bw is Eskilstuna. TGOJ also operates workshops for the Swedish state railway SJ . The abbreviation TGOJ originally stood for Trafikaktiebolaget Grängesberg – Oxelösunds järnväger . The company was independent until 1990 and transported iron ore from the mine in Grängesberg in Bergslagen to the Baltic Sea port of Oxelösund .
history
The company was created in 1931 through the merger of three private railway lines in the Bergslagen mining area in central Sweden. TGOJ was part of the Trafikaktiebolaget Grängesberg-Oxelösund (TGO, later Gränges AB ). This group operated ore mines, smelting works, transport companies and a shipping company. TGOJ was founded to sell Eisenerz u. a. from the Grängesberg mine to the Baltic Sea to Öxelösund. In addition, other transports including passenger transport and bus transport in the region were taken over. Between 1947 and 1962 the railway lines were electrified. In the 1970s, the steel crisis caused a significant decrease in the volume of transport. Several pits closed one after the other. As a result, Gränges was merged with other companies to form SSAB , and TGOJ also became part of this group.
Between 1988 and 1990 the company lost its independence and importance. In 1991, the route network was taken over by the state. Finally the last mines closed and in April 1990 the last ore train was running. TGOJ has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Green Cargo since 1999. The company's logo was initially a round G in a circle and an arrow pointing upwards. Later they switched to the simple TGOJ and the new corporate colors green and blue. In 2005 the company changed its name to TGOJ Trafik AB . As of January 1, 2011, TGOJ's independence within Green Cargo was given up and TGOJ was integrated into the parent company.
Historic vehicles
There was a large and varied fleet of vehicles, e.g. B. three very successful steam turbine locomotives (in operation 1930–1953), two of which have survived. Various types of three-axle vehicles were used as ore wagons. 1943 z. B. TGOJ owned this car in 1569 and only 1050 in 1965. For emptying, the wagons were simply lifted off the rails individually or in pairs using various techniques and tipped over in the port. During the steam era the train weight was up to 1700 tons, after electrification up to 2700 tons. The area of the ore station and depot in Grängesberg has been preserved; today there is a large railway museum here. TGOJ only kept the Ma series locomotives and a few shunting locomotives from the ore railway era.
Vehicles during the SJ period
With the takeover of the TGOJ by the SJ, all SJ locomotives of the Ma series were transferred to the TGOJ, which thus owned around 30 electric locomotives of this type. As long as the locomotives are still in regular use, they were painted in the new corporate colors of light green with blue stripes. In the event of bottlenecks, however, old brown former SJ-Ma were also used. TGOJ temporarily owned four Norwegian El 16s (which are actually nothing more than Rc4), but they are now back in Norway. In addition, three of the Rc2s that had been brought back from Austria (formerly series 1043 ) were temporarily rented. The latter, however, went back to TÅGAB in 2005/2006 . Recently, Rc from Green Cargo, which was provided with a small TGOJ sticker, were also used. TGOJ also had a few smaller diesel locomotives, a few T44s , plus a number of T43s , two Class66 and most recently also former Danish MZ (TMZ in Sweden). In addition, TGOJ had a number of ultra-modern freight cars, mostly special cars.
literature
- Ernst Wannedal: Trafikaktiebolaget Grängesberg – Oxelösunds Järnvägar TGOJ 1927-1990 , 1993, Verlag Bokförlaget Zelos AB, ISBN 91-630-2144-7
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Statistical information (English / Swedish), Table A1, page 34 (PDF; 1.5 MB)
- ↑ TGOJ nu en del av Green - Cargo press release from GreenCargo from 2011-01-03 ( Memento from February 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive )