I'm back to Sweden, and today I'm making a daytrip to Västmanland region, I will visit Köping and Skinnskatteberg.
Track 16, previously used by SL commuter trains (pendeltåg), now being used by regional trains. The platform for SL trains is higher than for all other trains.
Passing by lake Mälaren
Grillby
Enköping
Traxx locomotive outside Västerås
Västerås
After some sunny weather during my trip to Köping, it is now grey and cloudy for the rest of the day
Köping station
From Wikipedia: "In the 19th century Köping established itself as an industrial city, with a large mechanical workshop and a prosperous harbor. A fire in 1889 destroyed large parts of Köping, whereafter it was rebuilt using stone material under supervision of architect Theodor Dahl.
In the 20th century all kinds of companies have established themselves in Köping. Volvo built a large industry there in the 1920s; the arguably most known bed manufacturer in Sweden, Hästens, in 1924; and a number of gold groceries between 1940-1960."
Metodist church built in 1892
Köping mechanical warehouse
Water tower
Automotive and technological museum
Town hall
Köping church
Carl Wilhelm Scheele - 18th century Chemist who discovered the functions of oxygen was living in Köping.
X40 trains as operating the line passing through Köping
Since December 2017 there are services once per hour here also on Saturdays
From Köping I'm taking bus 550 to Skinnskatteberg
Kolsva
Skinnskatteberg is a much smaller town than Köping
There is a railway here too, Godsstråket genom Bergslagen. Only one train for the rest of this Saturday, and that's the one I will take.
Station is designed by Folke Zettervall
There is much more snow here than in Köping
The railway here is used primarily for freight trains
Rd2 1135
Rc4 1290 - today the only locomotive painted in the original orange livery
Rd2 1094 and 1086
Freight train from Norrland to Skåne
Local government house
Skinnskatteberg mansion
Skinnskatteberg church, built in 1865
Unclear why the olympic information center is located here..
Tågab Rc2 007
Passenger train operated by Tåg i Bergslagen is arriving
This is the service between Örebro and Gävle through Fagersta and Avesta Krylbo
X52 9039 and X51 9022
A train wating at the passing loop in Dagarn
Fagersta
X14
Karbenning
Avesta Krylbo
The train continues to Gävle
Rc4 1144 from Nordic Re-Finance
X55 Intercity train is arriving from Falun
This will be my train back to Stockholm
Sala
