TÅGAB (Tågåkeriet i Bergslagen AB) is a Swedish railway company with headquarters in

Kristinehamn Kristinehamn is a locality and the seat of Kristinehamn Municipality, Värmland County, Sweden, with 24,053 inhabitants in 2022. Geography Kristinehamn is situated by the shores of lake Vänern where the small rivers ''Varnan'' and ''Löt'' ...

. It was started in 1994 and runs trains in both

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and

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. In 1999, two locomotives (of type SJ T43 and TMY) from the company were painted in the colors of the U.S. Great Northern Railway to participate in

Lars von Trier Lars von Trier (né Trier; born 30 April 1956) is a Danish film director and screenwriter. Beginning in the late-1960s as a child actor working on Danish television series ''Secret Summer'', von Trier's career has spanned more than five decad ...

's film ''

Dancer in the Dark ''Dancer in the Dark'' is a 2000 musical psychological tragedy film written and directed by Lars von Trier. It stars Icelandic musician Björk as a factory worker who suffers from a degenerative eye condition and is saving for an operation to p ...

'', which was set in the United States but filmed in Sweden.

References

External links

TÅGABs website

{{DEFAULTSORT:Tagab Railway companies of Sweden Swedish companies established in 1994 Railway companies established in 1994 Companies based in Värmland County Kristinehamn