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management. tariffs. (507
the Board of 1he State railways both for the State and the private
railways. In certain matters, the private railways are subject to the
inspection and control of the "Väg- och vattenbyggnadsstyre]sen" (Royal
Engineering Board; cf. Canals and Waterways). Otherwise 110 check has been
laid by the State on the freedom of action of the private railways, and their
lines are worked under financial, as well as administrative, independence.
Thus, for instance, the Boards of the private railways have the right to
grant, for goods forwarded on their own lines, the privileges and
reductions which may seem fit to them. As regards carriage of goods on the
State railways, the Board of these railways can under certain conditions
grant reductions. As regards goods traffic, these conditions are, chiefly,
that the reductions may be made, if they are considered needful and if
it be to the economic interest of the State railways to grant the reductions
in question.
The network of private railways in Sweden is, as we mentioned before,
distributed among a number of different owners. In order to counteract
unhealthy competition, there was organized in 1882 a Joint Traffic TJnion
(samtrafiksföreningen) of the State railways and a number of private
lines, which most of the railways in the kingdom subsequently joined. For
goods traffic between the railway lines affiliated to this Joint Traffic
Union there exists a common joint traffic tariff (tallying with the tariff
Photo. Axel Sjöberg, Malmö.
1’t Class Sleeping-car.
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