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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 ...
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Swedish Transport Administration
The Swedish Transport Administration ( sv, Trafikverket) is a government agency in Sweden, controlled by the Riksdag and the Government of Sweden. It is responsible for long-term infrastructure planning for transport: road, rail, shipping and a ...
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Borlänge
Borlänge is a locality in Dalarna County, Sweden with 44,898 inhabitants as of 2020. It is the seat of the Borlänge Municipality with a total population of 51,604 inhabitants as of 2017.
History
Originally Borlänge was the name of a ti ...
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The State
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The Swedish Rail Administration ( sv, Banverket) was a
Swedish State administrative authority which acted as owner on behalf of the State and maintained virtually all
main railway lines in Sweden; except for short sidings for freight, heritage railways, the
Stockholm Metro
The Stockholm metro ( sv, Stockholms tunnelbana) is a rapid transit system in Stockholm, Sweden. The first line opened in 1950, and today the system has 100 stations in use, of which 47 are underground and 53 above ground. There are three colo ...
, local railways in the Stockholm area (
Roslagsbanan
Roslagsbanan is a narrow gauge commuter railway system in Roslagen, Stockholm County, Sweden. Its combined route length is and there are 38 stations. It is built to the Swedish three foot () gauge. The Storstockholms Lokaltrafik (SL) classifie ...
&
Saltsjöbanan
Saltsjöbanan is an electrified suburban rail system between Stockholm and Saltsjöbaden in Nacka, Sweden. It is in length and has eighteen stations in use. An average of 17,200 boardings are made on an ordinary workday (2019). The line is mo ...
), and the tramways in
Gothenburg,
Norrköping
Norrköping (; ) is a city in the province of Östergötland in eastern Sweden and the seat of Norrköping Municipality, Östergötland County, about 160 km southwest of the national capital Stockholm, 40 km east of county seat Link� ...
and
Stockholm. Its headquarters was located in
Borlänge
Borlänge is a locality in Dalarna County, Sweden with 44,898 inhabitants as of 2020. It is the seat of the Borlänge Municipality with a total population of 51,604 inhabitants as of 2017.
History
Originally Borlänge was the name of a ti ...
.
The Swedish Rail Administration was formed in 1988, when
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 ...
was split in two parts, leaving Statens Järnvägar as mainly a train operator ( both passenger and freight) and as a real estate owner, only to be split again in 2001.
The
Swedish Railway Inspectorate
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Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically:
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( sv, Järnvägsinspektionen) was a part of the Swedish Rail Administration until 2004, when the
Swedish Rail Agency ( sv, Järnvägsstyrelsen) was formed, taking over its responsibilities. That agency was in turn incorporated into the newly formed
Swedish Transport Agency
The Swedish Transport Agency ( sv, Transportstyrelsen) is a Swedish government agency which is responsible for the regulation of rail, air, sea and road transport and its enforcement. It was formed on 1 January 2009, through a merger of several ...
( sv, Transportstyrelsen) in 2009.
In 2010, the Government directed a merger with the
Swedish Road Administration
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( sv, Vägverket) to create the new
Swedish Transport Administration
The Swedish Transport Administration ( sv, Trafikverket) is a government agency in Sweden, controlled by the Riksdag and the Government of Sweden. It is responsible for long-term infrastructure planning for transport: road, rail, shipping and a ...
( sv, Trafikverket), and the subsidiary responsible for railway maintenance was spun off in a separate
aktiebolag,
Infranord.
List of directors-general
*Jan Brandborn 1988-1995
*Monica Andersson 1995-1997
*Bo Bylund 1997-2005
*Per-Olof Granbom 2006-2008
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Minoo Akhtarzand
Minoo Hilda Akhtarzand ( fa, مینو اختر زند; born December 1, 1956 in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian-Swedish civil servant who was Governor of Jönköping County from 2010 to 2016 and is currently Governor of Västmanland County since 2 ...
2008-2010
References
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Railway companies established in 1988
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Swedish companies disestablished in 2010