Gutes Ex.; Einband stw. leicht berieben. - Schwedisch; im Anhang auch englischer Text. - The quarter-century covered by this book is probably the most eventful and exciting period in the 125-year history of Statens J�vag�(SJ), the Swedish State Railways. The period began when SJ was still enjoying near-peak traffic. Then, in the 1960s came the painful cut-backs due to highway transport competition. But as this period drew to a close, there was a rebirth of demand and exciting plans for expansion, to meet an entirely new situation created by the oil crises. The past 25 years saw the introduction of revolutionary new technology-ranging from use of micro-computers to new thyristor-controlled locomotives. Plans were being formulated for introduction of high-speed trains that would make railways time-competitive to domestic air service. And SJ introduced highly-attractive low-priced passenger service. In addition to covering the past 25 years, this book also records the previous 100-year history of SJ, in both pictures and text. This is the fourth jubilee book that SJ has published. These volumes remain a treasure-house of information for transportation historians and railway enthusiasts. The history of Swedish rail transport actually goes back almost a half-century prior to the founding of SJ. In 1798, an English mining engineer, Thomas Stawford, designed and built Sweden's first railway-a horse-drawn line running a few miles between a coal mine and the port of Hoganas. In following years, many other horse-drawn railways were built, almost all for hauling ore from mines or iron from mills. The first passenger and commercial freight railways, opened in 1849 and 1850, were also horse-drawn, but were converted to steam eight years later. Curiously enough, Sweden's steam engine history began in England, and at the famous 1829 Rainhill race, in which Robert Stephenson's "Rocket" was winner and Stephenson was selected as the locomotive supplier for the Liverpool--Manchester line. The history begins with an engine never used in Sweden. John Ericsson, the famous Swedish inventor of the screw propellor (and the American Civil War hero who built the iron-clad warship Monitor for the Union), participated in that famous Rainhill race with his own British-built locomotive, "Novelty". Although it did not finish, it received much acclaim and spurred Swedes to produce their own. The first Swedish-built locomotive was delivered in 1853 by Theofron Munktell, owner of an engineering company in Eskilstuna, to Norbergs Jernvag. Unfortunately, this locomotive was not preserved. However, Munktell's firm does live on, today being known as Volvo-BM. the tractor and construction equipment subsidiary of Volvo. Large-scale locomotive production started in the 1860s, and among early manufacturers were Nydqvist & Holm (later known as NOHAB), which has remained in the business until today. One other early maker was AB Atlas, which did not remain in the locomotive business, but instead became one of the worlds leading makers of rock-drilling equipment and air compressors, and is known today as Atlas-Copco. In 1845, Adolf Eugene von Rosen returned to Sweden after railway studies in England and received royal permission to build a railway system through Sweden. His hopes to obtain British capital for the project, however, were not realized. But the concept was getting considerable attention in those years, and on Nov. 18. 1854, parliament resolved that the state itself-rather than foreign interests-should build and operate the main railway lines "running in unbroken stretches through several provinces or a large part of the nation". However, private companies would be allowed to operate smaller railways. Some of these private systems, because of their size and traffic volume, eventually had characteristics of main lines. The state, through SJ, in later years acquired most of these private lines, a large number being taken over in the 1940s. Today, there is only one important private line remaining, TGOJ, established to haul iron ore and steel from Grangesberg to Oxelosund, a Baltic port. Two months after the historic parliamentary decision of 1854, Col. Nils Eric-son, a naval machinery specialist, was assigned to build the first state railway lines, to link the capital of Stockholm with Gothenburg, the west coast port city, and with Malmb, the largest city in the south, located across the Straits of Oresund from Copenhagen. Work started on Apr. 30, 1855 and the first stretches - Gothenburg-Jonsered and Malmo-Lund - were put into service on Dec. 1, 1856. � (Anhang) ISBN 9185228656
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