Upsala – Lenna Jernväg

Uppsala Östra – Faringe
Steam train in Marielund station
Route length:	33 km
Gauge :	891 mm ( Swedish 3-foot track )
Maximum slope :	16.6  ‰
Top speed:	50 km / h
Operating points and routes
Legend 114 Uppsala östra Strandbodgatan, since 2011 112 Fyrislund 111 Årsta 110 Europastraße 4 , since 2005 108 Skölsta 104 Barby 103 Gunsta Funboån 101 Funbo 100 Marielund 99 Lövstahagen 99 Björktomta 98 Selknä 95 Solder 94 Lenna Nicksundet 89 Almunge 86 Moga Olandsån former series by Gimo 81 Faringe former route to Rimbo

Upsala – Lenna Jernväg , today's spelling Uppsala – Länna Järnväg , also called Lennakatten ("Lennakatze"), is a Swedish museum railway in the province of Uppsala län . It is a narrow-gauge railway with 891 mm (3 Swedish feet ) gauge. The route is 33 Kilometers long and leads from Uppsala Östra station via Bärby, Marielund , Länna and Almunge to Faringe station . It is run by the Museiföreningen Stockholm-Roslagens Järnvägar (SRJmf) association.

history

→ Main article : Stockholm – Roslagens Järnvägar

The current railway line from Uppsala to Faringe is a remnant of the once extensive narrow-gauge network of the Stockholm – Roslagens Järnvägar (SRJ). The original operating company Upsala-Lenna Järnväg AB (ULJ) was founded in 1874 and on January 15, 1875 was granted the concession to build the line from Uppsala to Länna. Construction began in April 1875, and in November 1876 the 21st Kilometers long route opened. The original purpose of the route was to supply the ironworks in Länna with raw materials and to transport the finished products away. Because of the beautiful scenic location of the route, a lively excursion traffic quickly developed and wealthy citizens of Uppsala built summer houses near the most beautifully situated train stations.

In 1879, the standard-gauge branch line to the port of Uppsala, which had existed since 1877, was equipped with three- rail tracks and a connection to the narrow-gauge line of the ULJ was established. This enabled the direct onward transport of goods delivered by ship to Uppsala on the narrow-gauge route, in particular charcoal from Norrland for the ironworks.

Even during the construction work, considerations began to extend the route beyond Länna via Faringe and Rimbo to the Baltic port of Norrtälje . Länna-Norrtälje Järnvägsaktiebolag (LNJ) was not founded until September 14, 1881 . Construction began in August 1882 after the concession was granted in February 1882. The extension was finally put into operation on October 23, 1884. In 1901, however, the LNJ's economic situation was so bad that it was up for sale.

On June 5, 1905, the LNJ was bought by the then Stockholm-Rimbo Järnvägar called SRJ. At the same time, the SRJ took over operations between Uppsala and Länna after they had acquired the majority of shares in ULJ. In 1908 the ULJ was then completely taken over by the SRJ and on January 1, 1909, the SRJ renamed itself to Stockholm-Roslagens Järnvägar , keeping the initials .

In the course of the general nationalization of the railway , the Stockholm – Roslagens Järnvägsaktiebolag was nationalized on July 1, 1951 and incorporated into the state railway company Statens Järnvägar (SJ) on July 1, 1959 . On January 1, 1967, passenger traffic was initially suspended between Uppsala and Rimbo, and freight traffic also ended on July 1, 1977.

A museum railway company called Museiföreningen Stockholm-Roslagens Järnvägar (SRJmf) was founded as early as 1968 . The aim was to preserve both vehicles and sections of the Roslag railway network threatened by closure. In the summer of 1974, the SRJmf, with the approval of SJ, was initially able to conduct museum traffic on the Uppsala – Faringe section on a trial basis every other Sunday. From the summer of 1975, every Sunday was driven and after the shutdown of freight traffic in 1977, museum traffic could also take place on working days.

Today's operation

Nowadays the route itself belongs to the municipality of Uppsala and the SRJmf takes over the management and the route maintenance. Several station properties are owned by SRJmf. Regular train operations take place every Sunday between the beginning of June and mid-September every year and on midsummer's day, and in the high season from the beginning of July to mid-August every Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday. In addition to the regular museum operations, trains can be chartered.

The current kilometering of the route (see route table) is still based on the earlier starting point of the SRJ, Stockholm's Östra station. Therefore, today's terminus stations are at route kilometers 82 (Faringe) and 114 (Uppsala Östra).

In connection with the designation of new residential areas in Bärby, Gunsta and Funbo in the east of Uppsala, the possibility of connecting them to the city of Uppsala by rail with light rail multiple units was examined . The project envisaged converting the Uppsala – Bärby line to standard gauge (the bridges built in 2005 and 2011 would be wide enough for this) and connecting Gunsta and Funbo with an approximately five kilometer long new line parallel to Reichsstraße 282. In this case, museum traffic would only have been possible from Bärby. However, these considerations were not continued, the new residential areas are accessed by buses.

Railway stations and stops

The railway line has the following stations and stops. Information on stopping points refer to today's museum railway:

Uppsala Östra (new building)

Play media file

Almunge station, 2015 (video).

• Uppsala östra : Railway station and western terminus of the route. Originally Uppsala östra station was about 200 meters northwest of the current position. As part of the remodeling of the central station of Uppsala ( Uppsala central station ), he was in 2005 temporarily relocated about 500 meters to the southeast in the Frodepark until it was reopened with completion of construction on December 12, 2011 at the current position. It is located right next to platform 8 of the main train station and has a newly built reception building in the style of the 1930s , a transfer platform and a water crane .
• Fyrislund: breakpoint, stop on demand. Rebuilt in the 1990s by the SRJmf museum railway company in an industrial area. It is located right next to the branch of a hamburger restaurant chain and was co-financed by this.
• Årsta: a stop that has existed since the railway opened. Today the museum railway needs stop. Originally a small settlement in the country, Årsta is now part of the city of Uppsala.
• Skölsta: stopping point, necessary stop. There used to be a siding to a quarry here. After the quarry was closed, a summer house settlement developed, which is now mostly permanently inhabited.
• Bärby: Train station. Has existed since the line opened in 1876.
• Gunsta: stopping point, need stopping. Has existed since the line opened in 1876.
• Funbo: Former stop, opened in 1930 and equipped with a platform and a bus shelter in 1932. It no longer exists today, but was dismantled at an unknown point in time after the closure of passenger traffic in 1966.
• Marielund: Railway station with siding , central platform and water crane. The place Marielund came into being after the railway line went into operation, when Uppsala citizens built villas and summer houses here. Today the station is the center of museum railway operations with frequent train crossings, café and picnic area.
• Lövstahagen: breakpoint, opened in 1911. Today only needs stop.
• Selknä: breakpoint, opened in 1915. Needs stop. During the high season of the museum in July and August, museum buses run from here to the bathing and leisure area Fjällnora.
• Löt: Haltpunkt, opened in 1920. Nowadays the breakpoint can only be reached via beaten path.
• Lenna: Railway station and end point of the route from 1876 to 1884. The museum railway uses the old-fashioned spelling Lenna , while the official spelling of the place name is Länna today . During regular operations, Lenna was the most important station on the line, with a locomotive workshop and operating tracks. In 1953 the station was renamed Lännaholm in order to avoid confusion with the state railway stations of the same name on Gotland and at Södertörn after the nationalization . This name can still be found on the privately owned and therefore not used by the museum railway station building.
• Almunge: Railway station, opened in 1884 as part of the route extension to Norrtälje. After the cessation of passenger traffic at the end of 1967, SJ had the sidings and platforms dismantled. These were rebuilt by the SRJmf until 2001.
• Moga: Halt, opened in 1925, closed in 1967. Reopened on June 28, 2014 as a stop for the museum railway.
• Faringe: Railway station and today's end of the line, opened in 1885. The Gimo line ( Faringe – Gimo Järnväg ) connected here from 1921 until 1972 . The locomotive sheds and workshops of the museum railway are located in Faringe. The Faringe station building burned down in 1982. It was initially replaced by a barrack . From 2008 onwards, a new building with the same exterior appearance as the original was built and opened in 2011.

Locomotives and railcars

The SRJmv has a number of operational steam and diesel locomotives as well as rail buses. Not all of them are originally from the SRJ, some have been taken over from other now-closed Swedish narrow-gauge lines.

Steam locomotives

BLJ 4 "LÅNGSHYTTAN"

Steam locomotive BLJ 4 "Långshyttan"

The LÅNGSHYTTAN locomotive was built in 1896 by the Swedish locomotive manufacturer Motala Verkstad for Byvalla – Långshyttans Järnväg (BLJ). It was bought by SRJmf in 1972. After being damaged, it was initially parked, and since its refurbishment in 1986, the LÅNGSHYTTAN has been regularly used in museum traffic . The locomotive does not have an air brake , which is why its top speed is 30 km / h is limited. It has no electrical system, the lighting is done with kerosene lamps. After several failures due to leaking heating pipes, all heating pipes were replaced in winter 2013/2014.

BLJ 5 "THOR"

Steam locomotive BLJ 5 "Thor"

The THOR locomotive also comes from Byvalla – Långshyttans Järnväg , it was the company's largest locomotive. The THOR was built in 1909 by Vagn- & Maskinfabriksaktiebolaget Falun in Falun . Like the LÅNGSHYTTAN , it originally had neither an electrical system nor an air brake. The electrical lighting system was retrofitted in 1937. After the BLJ was shut down in 1964, it was initially used as a monument locomotive in front of Långshyttan station. After it was damaged by vandalism there, it was sold to SRJmf in 1974. After three years of refurbishment, it was used in museum operations from 1977. A compressed air brake system was also retrofitted as part of this overhaul.

SRJ 28 "Stortysken"

Steam locomotive SRJ 28 "Stortysken"

The SRJ 28 locomotive is the largest narrow-gauge steam locomotive in Sweden. Because of this, and because it was built in Germany in 1920 by Henschel & Sohn in Kassel, Germany, it is nicknamed Stortysken ("The Great German"). The Stortysken is the only steam locomotive owned by the SRJmv that comes from the original locomotive inventory of the SRJ. Together with the identical machines with the serial numbers 27 and 29, it hauled through trains from up to twelve cars between Stockholm's Östra and Rimbo with a maximum speed of 65 km / h. After the line was electrified, it was used in front of heavy freight trains, including ore trains on the Dannemora – Hargshamn line.

SRJ 28 was withdrawn from scheduled service in 1962 and stored in the Swedish Railway Museum in Gävle. Their sister locomotives SRJ 27 and SRJ 29 were scrapped. In 1987 the Museum Stortysken was handed over to SRJmv, which used the locomotive in museum railroad operations from 1991 to 1997. From 1998 onwards, due to increasing signs of wear and tear, it was only used exceptionally in front of special trains and was last used in 2008 on its own. Since 2015 SRJmf has been running a fundraising campaign to finance the renovation of Stortysken . The aim is to be able to use the locomotive again to celebrate its 100th birthday in 2021.

NÖJ 16

The NÖJ 16, originally built in 1917 by NOHAB for the Norra Östergötlands Järnvägsaktiebolag , was the first functional steam locomotive owned by the SRJmv. However, it had to be shut down in 1974 due to severe signs of wear. The reconditioning of the locomotive began in 1988, but the work had to be interrupted again and again. In February 2014 they were not yet completed. On October 30, 2014, the boiler was heated again for the first time since it was shut down. The original goal of being able to use the locomotive again in the 2016 season could not be achieved because the damage to the locomotive was far greater than originally expected and there is a lack of volunteers with the necessary specialist knowledge. As of autumn 2018, it is expected that the renovation work will be completed in two to four years.

Diesel locomotives

SRJ Z4 1

Diesel locomotive SRJ Z4 1

The SRJ Z4 1 was built in 1947 by Kalmar Verkstad AB for the SRJ. It was the first in a series of shunting locomotives. In 1982 SRJmf acquired the SRJ Z4 1 from the Swedish Railway Museum in Gävle.

SJ Tp 3515

Diesel locomotive SJ Tp 3515

The Tp series was procured by SJ in the mid-1950s to replace steam locomotives on the narrow-gauge lines. A total of 25 machines were built, 20 of them at MaK in Kiel, the remaining five under license from AB Svenska Järnvägsverkstadta (ASJ) in Falun. Of these, 15 were converted to standard gauge over the course of time. Six of the remaining narrow-gauge locomotives were scrapped, four have been preserved on various Swedish museum railways.

Rail buses

In order to be able to operate the passenger traffic on the narrow-gauge lines as economically as possible, SJ had started after the nationalization to replace the trains, which were mainly drawn by steam locomotives, with inexpensive diesel multiple units. From 1952 rail vehicle manufacturer Hilding Carlssons Mekaniska Verkstad supplied rail buses of the YP series . SRJmf owns a total of six vehicles from this series:

Type SJ YBo5p

Rail bus SJ YBo5p 809 and control car 2109 in Marielund station

These are railcars with 42 seats without a separate luggage compartment. SRJmf has three of these vehicles

• Cars 809 and 885 are used in museum traffic.
• The motor coach 796 is parked and should be refurbished in the future so that it is operational.

Type SJ UBFo3yp

Control car with driver's cab at one end of the car.

• The 2109 car is used in museum traffic. It has 40 seats and a luggage compartment.
• The car 2139 has been used again in museum traffic since 2020. It has no luggage compartment and offers 50 seats.

Type SJ YFo5p

This railcar with the serial number 904 is the last surviving copy of a pure goods railcar. It was originally used to quickly transport fresh fish from Västervik to Linköping. From 1970 SJ stationed it in Rimbo and used it as an auxiliary vehicle. After the closure of the rail traffic in Rimbo in 1977 SRJmf was able to acquire it.

Web links

Commons : Upsala-Lenna Jernväg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Lennakatten. Retrieved February 28, 2014 (Swedish). 
• Mf Stockholm-Roslagens Järnvägar. Retrieved February 28, 2014 (Swedish). 

Individual evidence

1. ^ Uppsala Ö – Länna. Bandel 315. banvakt.se, accessed December 19, 2018 (Swedish). Länna – Faringe – Rimbo – Norrtälje. Bandel 316. banvakt.se, accessed December 19, 2018 (Swedish). 
    
2. ↑ Stig Lundin: Uppsala - Länna Järnväg (ULJ). P. 8 , accessed March 5, 2014 (Swedish). 
3. ↑ Stig Lundin: Uppsala - Länna Järnväg (ULJ). P. 14 , accessed March 8, 2014 (Swedish). 
4. ↑ Rolf Sten: Snabbfakta Stockholm - Roslagens Järnvägar. In: Historiskt om Svenska Järnvägar. July 16, 2002, accessed February 27, 2014 (Swedish). 
5. ↑ ^{a b} Banguide - Uppsala Ö-Länna-Faringe. järnväg.net, accessed December 19, 2018 (Swedish). 
6. ↑ Lars Hansson: UPPSALA - EPF Gunsta Funbo. (pdf) tobacco shop. SWECO Infrastructure, July 7, 2008, accessed February 20, 2017 (Swedish). 
7. ↑ Just for Uppsala resecentrum invigt! (No longer available online.) In: Uppsala Resecentrum. December 12, 2011, archived from the original on March 8, 2014 ; Retrieved December 19, 2018 (Swedish). 
8. ↑ Johan Vinberg: Lennabanorna . Museiföreningen Stockholm-Roslagens Järnvägar, 2004, ISBN 91-631-5621-0 , p. 121 (Swedish).
9. ↑ Johan Vinberg: Lennabanorna . Museiföreningen Stockholm-Roslagens Järnvägar, 2004, ISBN 91-631-5621-0 , p. 79 (Swedish).
10. ^ Moga hp. Banvakt.se, accessed July 14, 2014 (Swedish). 
11. ↑ Moga hållplats. Uppsala.com, June 28, 2014, archived from the original on July 15, 2014 ; Retrieved February 20, 2017 (Swedish). 
12. ↑ Byte av panntuber i BLJ 4. SRJmv, accessed on February 28, 2014 (Swedish). 
13. ↑ Bernt Karlsson: Skænk en julslant till Stortysken . In: Peter Norrbohm (Ed.): Roslagsexpressen . No. 4 , 2015, ISSN  2000-432X (Swedish).
14. ↑ Stortyskeninsamlingen . In: Stig Sahlin (Ed.): Roslagsexpressen . No. 4 , 2018, ISSN  2000-432X , p. 3 (Swedish).
15. ↑ Per Wirback: Ångloket NÖJ 16. SRJmv, accessed on February 28, 2014 (Swedish). 
16. ↑ Allan Magnusson: Trotjänare på spåret efter 40 år . In: Roslagsexpressen . No. 4 , 2014, ISSN  2000-432X , p. 4 (Swedish).
17. ↑ Allan Magnusson: Renovering av ångloket NÖJ16 från start till dagens status 2018 . In: Stig Sahlin (Ed.): Roslagsexpressen . No. 4 , 2018, ISSN  2000-432X , p. 16-18 (Swedish).