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RAILWAYS.
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älv has a fixed span of 83’si meters in width, in addition to a swinging-spän,
47’i8 meters wide.
While the material of the bridge track-ways of the State lines has hitherto
consisted of iron, natural stone and concrete and reinforced concrete, so much
in use nowadays, have been employed for arch-construction.
For example, a railway-bridge of granite and reinforced concrete, with a span
of 35 meters, is at present being erected over the Flåsjöälv, in Jämtland, on
the Inland Railway now in course of construction.
Bogie-car.
Among other works of skill, we must not omit to mention the tunnel, 433
meters long, under Södermalm, in Stockholm, and the extensive bridge-building,
banking, and piling-work executed in connection with the completion of the
railway through Stockholm city; also the works, noteworthy from several points
of view, on the Stockholm—Saltsjöbaden line, amongst which may be specially
noticed a tunnel 643 meters long in curve and gradient, and the terminus of
this line at Stadsgården, in the south of Stockholm. In the same connection,
mention must be made of the extensive quay-buildings and loading
arrangements that have been carried out at Svartön, near Luleå, and at Oxelösund —
both for the iron-ore export.
There are no specially noteworthy station buildings in Sweden, except the
terminus at Stockholm and the station at Malmö. The important increase of
traffic has, however, necessitated the rebuilding and enlargement of the stations
in some of the larger towns. With this object, extensive preparatory work is
at present being carried out at the principal stations in Stockholm, Gothenburg,
Malmö, and Hälsingborg.
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