AB Stockholms Spårvägar

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AB Stockholms Spårvägar
Company typeAktiebolag
Founded1st 1915, renamed in 1967
2nd 1987
FounderSvenska Spårvägssällskapet Edit this on Wikidata
HeadquartersStockholm, Sweden
ProductsPublic Transport
Websitewww.ss.se/en/ Edit this at Wikidata

AB Stockholms Spårvägar (lit. 'Stockholm Tramways', SS) is a name used by two different Swedish limited companies operating public transport in Stockholm, the capital city of Sweden.

The first company was founded in 1915 and owned by the City of

Stockholm County Council
.

Overview

Traffic with horse-drawn trams began in 1877 with the privately owned Stockholms Nya Spårvägsaktiebolag (lit. Stockholm's New Tramway Company, SNS) and it gained a

Slussen, although they had the option to do so. Another company, Stockholms Södra Spårvägsaktiebolag (lit. Stockholm's Southern Tramway Company, SSB) was started to provide tramway traffic on Södermalm
.

The city-owned AB Stockholms Spårvägar was created in 1915 with the aim to coordinate and making the two separate networks more efficient. The SNS network was taken over in 1917 and SSB would follow in 1918. Although the two networks had merged they would not be connected until 1922.

The opening of

overhead wires until special metro vehicles was introduced in 1950 which collected its power from a third rail
.

In addition to

7, 8 and 10) that remained in the City Centre were closed in conjunction with the switch to right-hand side traffic
in September 1967.

The company changed its name from January 1, 1967, to AB Storstockholms Lokaltrafik and is today responsible for public transport in Stockholm County.

Stockholms Spårvägar

Historic A12 tramcar on the newborn Djurgårdslinjen

In 1987 a new company with the name AB Stockholms Spårvägar was created by the

logotype. Starting in 1991 the company runs the heritage tram line to the island of Djurgården in central Stockholm
.

When regular tram service was started on Spårväg City in 2010 the company got the contract to run this service for the SL.

In April 2014 the

Stockholm County Council's Traffic department announced that the company was granted the contract for the period 2015-2022 for both Spårväg City and Lidingöbanan.[1]
During this period the two tramways will be connected.

See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Stockholms Spårvägar.

References

  1. ^ "Stockholms Spårvägar fortsätter driften på Linje 7 och tar över trafiken på Lidingöbanan".

External links

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