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(1914) [MARC] Author: Joseph Guinchard
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rau,ways

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Open Freight-goods Bogie-car, State-Railways.

brakes running through the entire train, in accordance with Korting’s or Hardy’s
systems, are in use on the express trains of all the State lines.

The Goods waggons of all the railways number altogether 51 000, with a total
carrying capacity of about 640 000 tons. The cost of the building of the 23 000
waggons belonging to the State railways amounted to 72 million kronor. Among
the different types of waggons characteristic of the country and its conditions
of traffic, may be mentioned the three-axled ore-waggons, of which those for the
conveyance of ore in Norrland have their bodies made of iron, and are now built
with a carrying-capacity of 35 tons each; and also the so-called butter-waggons,
which are constructed for the carriage of butter and other more perishable
articles, and which are provided with treble walls and roofs, refrigerators, etc. There
are also special waggons for the transport of cattle, of charcoal and limestone,
and four-axled bogie-waggons, specially intended for the carriage of ore and with
a carrying-capacity of 36 tons. The carrying-capacity of the double-axled
waggons of newer types is, as a rule, 16—18 tons. The heavy ore-trains running
on the line Luleå—Riksgränsen are all provided with the Westinghouse brake.

With regard to the rolling-stock of the State railways, this is, manufactured
in Sweden itself. Of the factories which supply the railways with locomotives,
the Trollhättan and the Motala Mechanical Works have brought the manufacture
to a comparatively high state of perfection. The Trollhättan Works produce an
average of 50 locomotives per annum, and the Motala works about 30.
Factories for the manufacture, on a large scale, of rollingstock are now to be found
in several places, as for instance at Falun, Malmö, Kristianstad, Hässleholm,
Linköping, Södertälje, and Arlöv.

The railways themselves have workshops for the repairs of stock; some private
lines also have works for the manufacture of rolling-stock. There is a Central
Repairing Workshop at Örebro for the State railways, these owning ten
workshops of varying importance in different parts of the country.

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