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598 x. internal communications.
New Railways opened for Traffic in Sweden each year during the period
1856—1913.
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figure for Europe is 3-4; lout the inferiority of the figure for Sweden is
here chiefly clue to the enormous distances in North Sweden. If the sis
läns situated farthest to the north are left out of consideration, the figures
rises to 7 km per ten thousand hectares, which is about the same as in
Italy. And Malmöhus Län even reaches 19 km for the same area, which ,
is more than the average for any other countries in Europe, with the
exception of Belgium and Luxemburg. Kristianstad Län has about 12 km
of railways per ten thousand hectares, or the same as that possessed by
the British Isles, while Blekinge Län has about 11 km, which is
approximately the average figure for the German Empire. The mining districts
of Central Sweden are also particularly well provided with railways.
Of the whole length of railways lines in use in Sweden at the end of
1913, 4 688 km were State lines and 9 689 km were Private lines (cf. Table
125). The most important lines in Sweden at present are the following:
State railways, a) Stockholm—Malmö—Trälleborg 649 km, the principal
route of communication with the Continent; direct steam-ferry communication
by sea is effected via Sassnitz with Germany; at Malmö there-is also direct
steam-ferry communication with Copenhagen .(see below); b)
Stockholm—Gothenburg, 458 km, to Katrineholm station in common with the above; c)
Stockholm—Christiania, 575 km, to Laxå in common with the above; 439 km of
the whole length belong to Sweden, and 136 km to Norway; d) Stockholm—
Uppsala—Bräcke—Boden—Kiruna—Riksgränsen (frontier-station) 1 542 km, with
a continuation on the Norwegian side to Ofoten on the Atlantic; from Boden
there is a branch line running towards the Finland frontier; e) Sundsvall
—Ånge—Trondhjem, 465 km, 363 km of which belong to Sweden and 102
to Norway; by means of this line, the Gulf of Bothnia and the Atlantic Ocean
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