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ULJN Upsala-Lenna Jernväg Narrow-Gauge
Upsala-Lenna Jernväg Narrow-Gauge (ULJN) (literally: Upsala-Lenna Railway) is a
32.6 km long 891 mm (3 Swedish feet) narrow-gauge heritage railroad in Uppsala
County, Sweden. 891 mm is the most common narrow-gauge in the country, but has
only been used in Sweden and in a mine in the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen.
The railroad, run by the SRJmf society, is one of a few remaining lines of a
greater network of narrow-gauge railroad lines in the area called Stockholm-Roslagens
Järnvägar (SRJ).
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History
The railway between Uppsala and Lenna (Länna) was opened in 1876 and was the
first of all 891 mm railways in the region. It was built to serve the ironworks
at Länna with a connection to the standard gauge railroad network. Two years
later the Dannemora-Harg Railroad (DHJ), also 891 mm, was taken into use in the
north of the county. That railway was built to connect the mines in Dannemora
with the harbor at Hargshamn. In 1884, ULJ was linked with the coast by the
Lenna-Norrtelje Railroad (LNJ). The following year that line was connected
through Rimbo with Stockholm by the Stockholm-Rimbo Railroad (SRJ).
Marielund Station in 2006SRJ acquired LNJ in 1905 and ULJ in 1908. In 1909, the
company's name was changed to Stockholm-Roslagens Railroad, which enabled it to
keep its signature (SRJ); Roslagen is the historical name of the coastal
district north of Stockholm. SRJ was also involved in the building of a new line
northwards from Rimbo which was finished in Hallstavik in 1915. In 1920, DHJ
(then a subsidiary of SRJ) was connected with the rest of the system by the
Faringe-Gimo line.
As of 1895, the line from Stockholm (including branch lines) were electrified.
This project was finished in 1949 when Rimbo-Norrtälje was electrified. After
World War II, most railways started to decline. SRJ/DHJ was nationalized in
1951, and eight years later the network was absorbed in the Swedish National
Railways (SJ). During the early 1950s, all three freight only branch lines to
DHJ (to Lövstabruk, Ramhäll and Fagervik by Lake Vällen) were closed. In 1960,
passenger traffic ceased on the Dannemora-Harg and Faringe-Gimo lines as well as
all the traffic from Stockholm Östra Station to Engelbrektsplan in the centre of
Stockholm. The latter was a city line with regular tram tracks, and for this
reason freight trains never ran there, and steam engines only rarely. Six years
later, in 1966, the commuter line Stocksund-Långängstorp was closed. That line
was initially built with standard gauge, but in 1934 converted to narrow-gauge
891 mm for practical reasons. In 1966, passenger traffic closed on the line
Uppsala-Rimbo-Hallstavik, and in 1969, only twenty years after its
electrification, the line Rimbo-Norrtälje was closed. The same year, freight
traffic closed south of Rimbo.
However, freight traffic was still quite busy on some parts of the network. The
Dannemora mines still exported iron ore through Hargshamn, and freight trains
with transporter wagons took freight to and from the paper mill at Hallstavik
via Uppsala-Rimbo. For this reason, the national railway board decided to
convert the former DHJ into standard gauge. The conversion was completed in
1970. At the same time, all traffic was closed on the line Faringe-Gimo.
SRJ 28 Stortysken at Lenna Station (in Länna) in June 2005. This remains the
last of a series of three of the biggest steam locomotives ever built for 891 mm
rail gauge.In 1972, the Greater Stockholm Transport Authority (SL) took over the
remaining lines with passenger traffic, i.e. the lines south of Rimbo. However,
SL closed the branch line Djursholms Ösby-Eddavägen in 1976, and in 1981, the
former railroad junction at Rimbo lost all its railways when the Kårsta-Rimbo
line was closed, making the village of Kårsta with some 200 inhabitants the new
northern terminus.
SRJmf Society
The SRJmf society was formed in 1968 with the main purpose of saving rolling
stock from the SRJ/DHJ network for excursion traffic. Initially, the society was
based in Stockholm, but as SJ in the early 1970s started to construct the new
standard gauge line from Hargshamn to Hallstavik, the society realized that the
Uppsala-Rimbo-Hallstavik line would no longer be used for freight traffic,
providing the society the opportunity to start traffic on the scenic line close
to Uppsala.
With the aid of the Municipality of Uppsala, traffic started on Sundays in the
summer of 1974 when freight trains did not run. Three years later the
Hargshamn-Hallstavik line was opened and all traffic ceased on the Uppsala-Rimbo-Hallstavik
line. The society could then take over the line Uppsala-Länna-Faringe, with the
City of Uppsala as owner of the track and with the former junction Faringe
serving as the headquarter with workshop facilities. The tracks between Faringe
and Rimbo were removed in 1978.
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