The Swedish Railway Museum , ( Swedish : Sveriges Järnvägsmuseum ), in Gävle , Gästrikland , Sweden is the national museum for Sweden's railway history.
7-568: The Swedish Railway Museum is tasked with acquiring, preserving and supplying knowledge about Swedish railway history on the basis of the national collection. The museum is owned by Trafikverket (Swedish Transport Administration), which receives an annual sum for the museum's activities from the Government. In 1915, the National Railway Board opened a railway museum in Stockholm . In 1942,
14-517: A hall for locomotives and rolling stock was added at Tomteboda railway station in Stockholm. The Swedish Railway Museum has been located in Gävle since 1970. The Museum has the use of two yards with tracks and several large buildings, including two round loco sheds and a sizeable workshop. The complex covers a total area of some 16,000 square metres. Some items for the collection had already been acquired by
21-452: Is done by separate companies which Trafikverket write contracts with and pay. A special committee oversaw the effectiveness of the Swedish transport agencies during 2008 and 2009. A conclusion was reached that there would be significant gains compared with the then-present situation if a new agency responsible for long-term planning of the transport system for road, rail, maritime and air traffic
28-685: The Riksdag and the Government of Sweden . It is responsible for long-term infrastructure planning for transport: road, rail, shipping and aviation. It owns, constructs, operates and maintains all state-owned roads and railways and operates many car ferry services. The agency is a member of the Nordic Road Association. For shipping and aviation, it only does planning and purchasing unprofitable traffic. Trafikverket does not do practical physical work to construct or maintain roads or railways, because that
35-546: The end of the 19th century. The present collection, which is one of the finest of its kind in the world, contains more than 100 locomotives, some 150 coaches, and several hundred other items of rolling stock. The best of these are displayed in the basic exhibition. Although most of the other items are kept in the stores, they are available for viewing by groups or by pre-arrangement. Apart from locomotives and rolling stock, tools, instruments, and models, as well as crockery, textiles and art in specially built settings are displayed at
42-483: The museum. Photographs form an exciting pathway into historical times. The museum collection of photographs contains several hundred thousand pictures, and the museum is currently transferring copies of negatives, glass plates into digital form to make them more available for the public. Trafikverket The Swedish Transport Administration ( Swedish : Trafikverket ) is a government agency in Sweden, controlled by
49-906: Was formed. Preparations started in the autumn of 2009, and the new authority began its work on 1 April 2010. It took over all operations of the Vägverket [road administration] and Banverket [rail administration], as well as parts of the Swedish Maritime Administration , Civil Aviation Administration and the Swedish Institute for Communications Analysis , except that some practical operations were transferred to new commercial companies. These companies do road and railway building and maintenance, airport operations etc. Many activities have historically been performed by national business agencies such as SJ , Banverket and Swedish Road Administration. These agency activities has been taken over by
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