Swedish Railway Museum

The Swedish Railway Museum, in Gavle, Gastrikland, Sweden is the countrywide museum for Sweden's railway history. The Swedish Railway Museum is tasked with acquiring, retaining and supplying information approximately Swedish railway history on the idea of the country wide collection. The museum is owned with the aid of Banverket, 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, a hall for locomotives and rolling inventory changed into brought at Tomteboda railway station in Stockholm.

The Swedish Railway Museum has been located in Gävle considering that 1970. The Museum has using yards with tracks and numerous big buildings, including two spherical loco sheds and a considerable workshop. The complicated covers a complete area of a few 16,000 rectangular metres. Some objects for the gathering had already been received by using the cease of the nineteenth century. The gift collection, that's one of the best of its kind within the global, carries greater than 100 locomotives, a few 150 coaches, and numerous hundred other objects of rolling stock.