The
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 ...
class E10 was a type of
steam locomotive
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which was used for
freight traffic. Ten locomotives were built in 1947 as a slightly modified version of the older E9 class. They were used mainly on the
Inland Line
The Inland Line ( sv, Inlandsbanan) is a railway line between Kristinehamn and Gällivare in Sweden. It runs through the central parts of northern Sweden, and was built between 1908 and 1937.
History
There were several reasons for constructing ...
, before being placed in the strategic reserve, where some remained until 1990; five of them have been preserved.
History
In the 1940s the Swedish State Railways (SJ) saw a need for modern steam locomotives for freight traffic on the Inland Line and in southern
Norrland
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.
When the private railway company ''
Halmstad–Nässjö Järnväg'' (HNJ) was nationalized in 1945, their G12 class three-
cylinder
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A cylinder may also be defined as an infin ...
4-8-0
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locomotives became the
E9 class of SJ.
Impressed
by these smooth-running locomotives with high
traction and a low axle load, SJ ordered ten E10 locomotives from
NOHAB
NOHAB (Nydqvist & Holm AB) was a manufacturing company based in the city of Trollhättan, Sweden.
History
The company was founded by Antenor Nydqvist, Johan Magnus Lidström and Carl Olof Holm in 1847 as ''Trollhättans Mekaniska Verkstad'' as ...
, based on the E9.
The E10 locomotives, delivered in 1947,
were the last large steam locomotives built for the Swedish railways.
The class differed from the E9 by having
roller bearings
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, fully enclosed cabs, and slightly different fireboxes.
They were given
tenders of the G5 type, a six-wheeled semi-Vanderbilt tender originally designed for the Gb class locomotives in 1920,
and large
smoke deflectors
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of the German
''Wagner'' type.
The type was mainly used on the
Mora
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–
Östersund
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section of the Inland Line and other railways in the
Dalarna
Dalarna () is a '' landskap'' (historical province) in central Sweden. English exonyms for it are Dalecarlia () and the Dales.
Dalarna adjoins Härjedalen, Hälsingland, Gästrikland, Västmanland and Värmland
Värmland () also known a ...
region.
They were converted to oil firing in the 1950s,
but this was not very successful,
and some locomotives were damaged in fires related to it.
As the use of steam locomotives declined in Sweden, a large number of surplus locomotives were preserved in the strategic reserve (
Swedish
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: ''Beredskapslok'') to replace diesel-powered vehicles in case the import of oil was interrupted.
The E10 class was allocated to the strategic reserve in the 1960s.
It was one of only four types of steam locomotives to remain in the reserve past the 1970s, but four of the machines were withdrawn in 1973 and scrapped thereafter.
The other six were part of the strategic reserve until 1990,
and were later transferred to the
Swedish Railway Museum
The Swedish Railway Museum, ( sv, Sveriges Järnvägsmuseum), in Gävle, Gästrikland, Sweden is the national museum for Sweden's railway history.
The Swedish Railway Museum is tasked with acquiring, preserving and supplying knowledge about Swedis ...
and various preservation societies,
although no. 1744 was used for spare parts
and eventually scrapped in 2012.
References
{{Swedish railway stock
Railway locomotives introduced in 1947
Steam locomotives of Sweden
E10
4-8-0 locomotives
Freight locomotives
Standard gauge locomotives of Sweden