A journey to Sweden, 1989: Three stations on the inlandsban

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On our trip from Östersund to Vilhelmina I took a few photos of some "centrallås". The first one was at Lit, north of Östersund:

Interlocking frame, Lit, 20.7.1989

Interlocking frame, Lit, 20.7.1989

Station building, Lit, 20.7.1989

Jämtlands Sikås had a rebuild from parts of an older crank ("vev") frame:

Interlocking frame, Jämtlands Sikås, 20.7.1989

Interlocking frame, Jämtlands Sikås, 20.7.1989

The keys are all present in the frame, even the K¹⁴ key for closing the station, but not all of them are turned:

Interlocking frame, Jämtlands Sikås, 20.7.1989

I took the station building only when we left the station, against the sun:

Station building, Jämtlands Sikås, 20.7.1989

The following picture shows the distant signal of Ulriksfors. The flashing green light means "danger". A white flashing light would mean "proceed"—the colours are similar to the ones used in Central Europe up to the 1920s!

Distant signal, Ulriksfors, 20.7.1989

Bridge near Ulriksfors, 20.7.1989

Another bridge near Ulriksfors, 20.7.1989

Station tracks, Ulriksfors, 20.7.1989

At Ulriksfors, we were supplied with sandwiches!—however, one had to queue up:

Station building and sandwiches to go (or ride?), Ulriksfors, 20.7.1989

Passengers who already had their sandwich were waiting in the sun:

SJ Y1 1319, Ulriksfors, 20.7.1989

Home signal A is still cleared. The lights for the distant signals seem to indicate whether the signal is in order, as they are alight for both distants. Were they on all the time, or only when a route was locked? In the center of the panel, one can see the controls and indicators for a set of barriers:

Interlocking panel, Ulriksfors, 20.7.1989

A little later, a key had been inserted into the panel—was it to return the signal to stop?

Interlocking panel, Ulriksfors, 20.7.1989

Finally, I took this picture of ground-operated points without blade locks:

Points, Ulriksfors, 20.7.1989