Ryttaren Peat Factory
The light railway of the Ryttaren Peat Factory is a long narrow-gauge railway with a gauge of near Kättilstorp in Falköping Municipality in Västergötland in western Sweden, which is still operated as a heritage railway. Since 2012, the former factory has been protected as an industrial monument (''Byggnadsminne'') in accordance with the provisions of the Swedish Cultural Heritage Act. History Ryttaren Peat Factory The construction of the Ryttaren Peat Factory began in the spring of 1906. At the same time the light rail track from the factory to the moor was built. On 7 May 1906, an order was placed at AB Wilhelm Sonesson & Co. for of transportable rail sections, plus five switches, 24 wheel sets with double track rings and a trolley. The agricultural scientist Nils Hartelius founded the Ryttaren peat stock corporation in Grimstorp in 1906. In the same year the factory was built next to the railway between Falköping and Nässjö to extract peat from the Ryttaren moor. ...
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