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988
XIII. INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS OF SWEDEN.
according to the
present tariff, the single
fare between
Stockholm and Malmö (618
kilom, or 384 miles)
third class is 24-75
kronor (27 shillings),
and according the new
one 13-40 kronor (15
shillings).
Since 1903 a
special tourist (luxury) train
— the »Lappland
Express• — runs in summer
time once a week between
Stockholm and Narvik,
thus, from the Capital
of Sweden, through the
whole of Swedish Norrland and Lappland as far as the Atlantic Ocean, above the
arctic circle, — a journey of 1,581 kilom, or almost 1,000 miles. The train is
composed of bogie-cars with one compartment for each passenger, with two special
conversation and smoking saloons, with a restaurant car, etc.; it affords all the latest
modern comforts, and offers undoubtedly the most convenient passage, hitherto in
existence, to visit the regions of »The Midnight sun».
The staff which attends to the traffic on the Swedish railways
may at present be reckoned to amount to about 30,000 persons, 16,000
of whom have regular or permanent employ. About half of the above
numbers are engaged on the Government railways. The closest
supervision over the employés is exercised by the superintending staff of the
line, which also controls the safe and regular train service, etc. The
nomination and dismissal of employés is — except in the case of high
officials on the Government railways, who are appointed and dismissed
by the Government, — effected by the respective Boards or immediately
subordinated authorities, and the Government has — with regard to
the staffs of the private lines — not thought fit to fix any general
rules for employment except in requiring an examination conducted by
a specialist as to the sense for colours of the party concerned.
No general rules are set down with regard to the length of the working
day, but, with regard to the particularly trying and important service devolving
on the train-staff, attempts have been made to render that service as little onerous
as circumstances permit. With regard to Sunday labour on the part of the
staff, reductions have been made in respect to goods traffic, inasmuch as neither
receiving nor delivering of goods takes place on such days, in addition to which
a number of goods trains are discontinued. With regard to the staff of the
Government lines, it is laid down that they, so far as possible, are to enjoj
leave of absence every third Sunday so as to attend Divine Service. NiglUvork
naturally occurs both for the train-, station-, and inspection staffs on lines where
night trains run. This, however, chiefly concerns the Government railways.
At the Lake of Tome träsk, in Lappland.
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