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electrification of the swedish railways.
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social isolation which the long distances have always tended to establish
between the various parts of this vast but sparsely populated country.
Electrification of the Swedish Railways.
Sweden suffers from an almost total dearth of native locomotive fuel of
fully satisfactory quality, but, on the other hand, it has rich resources in
its waterfalls and peat-bogs. The question of the utilization of the
waterfalls, especially, for obtaining motive-power for the State Railways has,
consequently, been under consideration for a considerable number of years,
and since it has now proved possible to transmit electric energy over great
distances, the question of the electrification of certain sections of the State
railways, where a lively traffic is carried on, has now been taken up.
The Railway- and Transformer-station at Abisko (Kiruna—Riksgränsen).
On the basis of the investigations carried out during the years 1902—
09 by the State Railways Board, partly from an economic point of view,
and partly by means of practical experiments on one or two short-distance
sections in the vicinity of Stockholm, the Riksdag of 1910 resolved to
devote an amount of 21 500 000 kronor for the electrification of a section
of the railway, about 100 km in length, between Kiruna-Riksgränsen.
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