(, SS) is a name used by two different Swedish limited companies operating

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in Stockholm, the

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of Sweden. The first company was founded in 1915 and owned by the City of Stockholm to coordinate and operate public transport within the City. In 1967 the public transport in the entire

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was coordinated and the company changed its name to (SL) and its ownership was transferred to the

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Traffic with horse-drawn trams began in 1877 with the privately owned ( Stockholm's New Tramway Company, SNS) and it gained a concession to operate trams on the streets of Stockholm for 40 years. Largely due to geographic factors, its traffic never extended south of , although they had the option to do so. Another company, ( Stockholm's Southern Tramway Company, SSB) was started to provide tramway traffic on . The city-owned was created in 1915 with the aim to coordinate and making the two separate networks more efficient. The network was taken over in 1917 and would follow in 1918. Although the two networks had merged they would not be connected until 1922. The opening of in 1935 caused a major rework of the tram and bus lines when passage through no longer was mandatory when travelling from to . The first underground parts of the

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opened in 1933 on the stretch from to , although it would be trafficked by suburban trams gaining electricity from overhead wires until special metro vehicles was introduced in 1950 which collected its power from a

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. In addition to

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, motorbuses and the

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, SS once operated a large

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system from 1941 until 1964. The Stockholm City Council decided in 1957 to suspend the tramway and the last five lines (4, 6, 7, 8 and 10) that remained in the

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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 and is today responsible for public transport in

In 1987 a new company with the name ' was created by the Swedish Tramway Society to take care of the traffic on the then forthcoming . accepted the re-use of its old name and

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. Starting in 1991 the company runs the

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line to the island of in central Stockholm. When regular tram service was started on in 2010 the company got the contract to run this service for the SL. In April 2014 the

's Traffic department announced that the company was granted the contract for the period 2015-2022 for both and . During this period the two tramways will be connected.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:AB Stockholms Sparvagar Rail transport in Stockholm Public transport companies in Sweden Tram transport in Sweden Railway companies established in 1915 Railway companies established in 1987 Swedish companies established in 1915 Swedish companies disestablished in 1987

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