Bergslagernas Järnvägar

Bergslagernas Järnvägar was the largest private railroad company of Sweden with a main line from Gothenburg to

Falun Falun () is a city and the seat of Falun Municipality in Dalarna County, Sweden, with 37,291 inhabitants in 2010. It is also the capital of Dalarna County. Falun forms, together with Borlänge, a metropolitan area with just over 100,000 inhabitan ...

, in all 478 km. Bergslagernas Järnvägar (BJ) was founded in the 1870s to form a transportation system from

Bergslagen Bergslagen is a historical, cultural, and linguistic region located north of Lake Mälaren in northern Svealand, Sweden, traditionally known as a mining district. In Bergslagen, the mining and metallurgic industries have been important since the ...

, the ore-rich areas in southern Sweden to the port in Gothenburg. It was nationalized and merged into

Swedish State Railways The Swedish State Railways ( sv, Statens Järnvägar) or SJ, originally the Royal Railway Board ( sv, Kungl. Järnvägsstyrelsen), was the former government agency responsible for operating the state-owned railways in Sweden. It was created i ...

in 1948. Defunct companies of Sweden Defunct railway companies of Sweden 1870s establishments in Sweden Railway companies disestablished in 1948 {{Sweden-transport-stub