A TGOJ T43 resting for the weekend in Orsa, August 2001. See more in Ollies trainstuff!, all colorphotos by Ollie Ahokas
Mora
Mora.
Mora is the southern terminal of the Inland line. The yard and operations are discussed on separate page just click here.Inlandline images Mora - Sweg.
Selja
Selja.
There is not much that remains from the days when this site was a station, only embankements from the yard and a siding and few foundATIONS. The original depot was destroyed by fire and a new depot was built in differnent style. This building was removed to the top of the mountain of Gopshus as a cafee and meeting hall. The schetch I drew and publish here is a combination of acouple of photos of the site and a photograph of a train at Gopshus.Hökenberg
Hökenberg.
The section house in Hökenberg is unlike others allmost in original looks. Most of its sisters have a add on built to give more spacious accomendations to serve their present duties, as weekend cabins. The section houses seem to follow the designs on GDJ-line from Gävle from the east coast to Mora.Gopshus
Gopshus.
After a strech through the woods with small bluffs and a climpse of the small man made lakes the scenery opens up a bit when we reach to Gopshus.The first station is Gopshus, which despite the well maintained building is actually no station no more. That is the fact with all the stations on the line which is a infrequent freight only line. The buildings are drawn by a famous architect Ferdinand Boberg, just a few years before making it big. In the same years as he did the buildings on this line, he also designed the buildings on Nynäshamns line. The buildings on the Nynäshamn line are influenced by his trip to America, while here it is a kind of typical of national romantic movements that were in voque during the last decades of 19.th century.
The trackplan seem to have been a single siding, a rather long one as the line was at some part of the history a part of the national defence, much because of the training grounds at Trängslet. Today, the buildings seem to be in well shape and used as a community hall for the small hamlet, named for the steep hill of Gopshus.
The location is very scenic, sitting at the foot of the mountain on westside and water reservoir of the dammed river of Österdalsälven.
Oxberg.
Oxberg.
After running along the lake, partly on causeways and back on the shore and a westbound 45 degree curve The track here seem to have been a pair of sidings, which are today just history. The mainline runs through is now the only track. The depot has a company of log cabin and as in Gopshus the buildings are used as community hall.Oxberg is the northern most of the villages and hamlets in Mora and is worht a visit as it looks a lot like from postcards, especially durng the late spring and the summers. And from here the famous Vasa Skirun takes of to west while the tracks we follow takes to east.
Oxberg Timber Terminal.
Oxberg Timber Terminal.
Located south of the depot some a couple hundred yards awy is the Timber terminal, which closed down its operation in the 1990.s only after a fews years of operation. The track here is long siding formed as a run around track, which connects to the main line at north, just before the bridge, which is something else...
The bridge over the river.
The bridge over the river.
This where things get interesting. The fairly large three span serves as a railroad bridge AND as highway bridge. To kep things safe the traffic with rubber and flanged wheels are allowed to run over the bridge at only 20 km/h. Both the highway and the track are protected by barriers and the train crews have to stop to activate the signals and raising the barriers over the line.Gåsarv
Gåsarv.
High on the hillside to west this depot is easy to miss. The depot is identical to both Gopshus and Oxberg, and the trackplan here seem to have been a single siding that appears to have been shorter than at above mentioned sites, the depot is now a residence and on the opposite side there is a very scenic view over the lake and the peaks of the Mount Wäsa, of which the middle one is a small ski resort.Note the mainlinhere uses the former siding trackage forming gentle S-bends at the ends of the yard.
The "new" Älvdalen" Station
The "new" Älvdalen Station.
is actually a siding, but when this was opened it was a national covered event with ministers, sinisters and press open the first new station over decades. It is sometimes a rather corny thing to watch how a siding, middle of allmost nowhere gets beefed up. They even mentioned that the siding, sorry the New Station, would bring a new lease of life for the entire region. Well, things did not quite turn that way....The siding was originally used for gravel loading but that vanished within a year, and the cars used are parked at the yard of Mora.
The Banverket, that does the MoW-duties on allmost the swedish railnetwork, does, but not very often use this siding to load gravel and ballast. More frequent, but still not very often, the siding is used for log loading. Today this is the end of the track and the final kilometer or two has lost the track and partly used as a path for people in southern part of Älvdalen.
Älvdalen
Älvdalen.
The end of the line, with the largest depot along the line. Few years back the yard looked like time machine to an era that was long gone. Most of the buildings besides the depot and warehouses with loading docks facing the track still exists, but gradually track was pulled off, leaving only empty vacated spot.The depot itself was transformed to a tourist information center and was somewhat rebuilt to this service. In 2003, the vacated yard was turned in to bus terminal and looks yet better than the vacated spot it have been few years.
The freightstation is boarded up and the sacking roof may indicate that the building may not last to next decade. There are a few rail related scenes besides Älvdalen that really can tell the right or wrong side of track now adays. The small boarding houses and former bars are turned into residences near the depot, while the otherside with the freight house shows variations of small businesses in different state of decay. The end of the track is at the two stall roundhouse.
