A journey to Sweden, 1989: From Herrljunga towards Lidköping

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The slight tilt adds additional elegance to this picture of SJ's Rc6 1412 with its train at Herrljunga:

SJ Rc6 1412, Herrljunga, 17.7.1989

With a Fiat rail car, we continued to Lidköping. The line leaves Herrljunga over a few steep crossings:

Herrljunga, 17.7.1989

Here are a few shots out of the rail car from the journey to Lidköping. The first two show a few maintenance cars of Sweden's "banverk" ("banverket" means the rail works; it has since been integrated into trafikverket, i.e. the traffic works, which is Sweden's national agency for all traffic networks and facilities):

Maintenance car of banverk, near Herrljunga, 17.7.1989

Maintenance cars of banverk, near Herrljunga, 17.7.1989

This view into the driver's cab of our Fiat Y1 is almost the same as the fourth one on this page, which explains (in Swedish) the ATC (Automatic Train Control) system. In contrast to that picture, mine does not show any speed indications—the line to Mariestad had not been equipped with ATC in 1989:

Driver's seat on Y1 1271, near Herrljunga, 17.7.1989

The ballast used for the line seems to be a quite fine-grained gravel:

Tracks, near Herrljunga, 17.7.1989

Here is a picture of the home signal Jps 3/2 of Järpås:

Line near Järpås, 17.7.1989

The following enlargement from the previous image shows a few more signals. Left to right, one can see:

• The cleared home signal;
• a speed sign for 100 km/h;
• then an indicator for the following level-crossing distant signal (V = "väg" = "way");
• and finally, the (blurred) three lights of that level-crossing distant signal.

(A click on the image shows it in full film resolution):

Signals near Järpås, 17.7.1989