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urban communications. 625
Table 131. Statistics of the Tramway Traffic in Sweden, in 1912.
Tramway Constructed in Length Cost of
construction Receipts 1912 [-Car-kilometers-] {+Car-kilo- meters+} 1912 No. of
passengers
km kr. kr. kr. 1912
Stockholm municipal tram-
way (Bromma) .... 1912 1-8 163 000 27 000 102 000 421 000
Stockholm Northern tram-
ways ........ 1877 (1904) 347 17 280000 5 318 000 11 515 000 58 843 000
Stockholm Southern tram-
ways ........ 1886 11-2 538 000 1 006 000 2 242 000 10 896 000
Lidingö tramways.... 1907 32 ’948 000 73 000 189 000 831 000
Southern Suburban line . 1911 8-5 380 000 102 000 270 000 1 049 000
Gothenburg tramways . . 1902 32-4 5 112 000 2 108 000 6 168 000 24 004 000
Malmö tramways .... 1906 15-9 2 562 O00 741 000 2 262 000 7 654 000
Sundsvall tramways . . 1910 7-1 600 000 107 000 330 000 1076 000
Norrköping tramways . . 1904 6-7 497 000 169 000 751 000 2 033 000
Uppsala tramways . . . 1906 7-0 254 000 143 000 520 000 1 404 000
Gävle municipal tram-
ways ........ 1909 55 567 000 118 000 625 000 1 136 000
Hälsingborg tramways. . 1903 5-4 533 000 137 000 602 000 1 51] 000
Jönköping tramways . . . 1907 3-8 453 000 122 000 458000 1 215 000
Karlskrona tramways . . 1910 3-5 269 000 60 000 176 000 575 000
line on the island of Lidingö, which is the property of the Lidingö Trafik
Aktiebolag.
The Södra spårvägsaktiebolaget, Southern Tramways in addition to its lines
in Södermalm, also owns and works a line from Skanstull, past the Municipal
Slaughterhouse, to the Egna Hem ("Own Homes") Colony at Enskede, another
suburb which is the property of the town.
In the commune of Brännkyrka, which is now incorporated with the capital,
there is an independent tramway line which starts from Liljeholmen bridge and
ends at two termini, Midsommarkransen and Fridhem, which are also the last
stations on two branch-lines.
The total number of passengers carried during 1912 on all the tramway lines
in and about Stockholm is shown by Table 131.
A characteristic feature of the means of communication within Stockholm
is the numerous fleet of little steamers that, for many decades, have kept up
a lively traffic on the many waterways of the capital. During the last few
years, however, the competition of the tramway lines has checked the further
development of these boats. In 1911 there were engaged in the traffic within
Stockholm and its immediate neighbourhood 64 steam-boats and ferries, each of
which, on an average, could accommodate 123 passengers. The number of trips
daily is, on some lines, exceedingly large, and the total number of passengers
amounted in the year named to 11 704 000. In addition to this, there is the
considerable traffic carried on by passenger-steamers to the little centres of
population on the islands of Lidingö and Värmdö, to Saltsjöbaden, and to a large
number of places on the shores of Lake Mälaren and the Baltic; the number of
passengers on these boats can be estimated at, at least, 21/2 millions per year. —
The hilly character of Stockholm has led to the introduction of a peculiar meanB
of communication in the three elevators or lifts to Södermalm (the
Katarinaand Maria-lifts and the lift at the Söderberg stairs) which, during 1911,
conveyed altogether 2 202 000 persons. There is also the Brunkeberg tunnel, a
means of communication under the hill called Brunkebergsåsen (formerly ca.
1 1/s million foot-passengers yearly; now sinking on account of new streets being
opened for traffic; 1914 ca. 2k million). —- Since the extension of the tramway
40—133179. Sweden. II.
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