September 2009

In the spring of 1984, the association Rädda Smalspåret (later Föreningen Smalspåret Växjö-Västervik) was formed with the aim of ensuring that the Växjö-Västervik narrow gauge railway would not be closed down. The last passenger trains under SJ's auspices ran on 19 August that year. In the winter of 1986, the last freight traffic ceased and the track lay unused - everything was set for closure and demolition. The fact that instead a [...]

Smalspåret i Hultsfred AB (SH), which acts as an operating company for Föreningen Smalspåret Växjö-Västervik, is carrying out a new share issue. With a view to a jubilee summer in 2012, when the Åseda-Virserum railway will be 100 years old and the Virserum-Hultsfred railway 90 years old, the company now wants to broaden its ownership and increase its share capital in order to be able to carry out the upgrades needed to