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Jakob Ehrensvärd | profile | all galleries >> Trains (mainly from Sweden) >> Past glory of Rail >> Vislanda scrap yard tree view | thumbnails | slideshow

Vislanda scrap yard

Vislanda was the main train cemetary until end of the 1980s. The place had a busy time from the end of the 1950s, where the steam engines and odd non-SJ stock were scrapped. In the end of the 1970s, in the era of the "pervasive class Rc", locos of classes D, F, H and Mg met their fate here, together with endless rows of DMUs and freight cars.

It is a fair guess that the soil around the site is everything but healthy. Transformer oil, heavy metals, asbestos etc. was handled with no, or a minimum of safety precautions until the beginning of the 1970s.

Today, the site is not run by SJ, and has turned into a more general steel scrap recycling plant.
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F 700 Vs Row of F Vs Mg 608 + 620 Vs Mg 611 + 618 Vs
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