The Köping-Uttersberg-Riddarhyttan Railway was a narrow-track railway in central Sweden, 46 km long. "Sverige" redirects here For other uses see Sweden (disambiguation and Sverige (disambiguation. The railway went between the port city of Köping and small industry cities e. Köping Municipality ( Köpings kommun) is a municipality in Västmanland County in central Sweden. g. Uttersberg and Riddarhyttan in the northwestern direction. Riddarhyttan is an old mining town in Skinnskatteberg Municipality, Sweden. It existed 1864-1968. Year 1864 ( MDCCCLXIV) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap year Year 1968 ( MCMLXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
This railway had a quite unique rail gauge of 1093 mm (3 ft 7. Rail gauge is the distance between the inner sides of the two parallel rails that make up a railway track. 0 in), which is said not to have existed anywhere else in the world. This happed by mistake. The railway was planned to have 1067 mm, a relatively common gauge in Sweden at this time, around 1860. Something went wrong when ordering locomotives and rail cars. Probably someone measued in the wrong way on the track, which was built from Köping and on. Possibly there was a mistake with the Swedish and English foot, which differ by about 2. The foot is an Anatomical structure found in many Animals It is the terminal portion of a limb which bears weight and allows Locomotion. 7 %.
When the trains arrived they did not match the railway, and it was considered to be cheaper to move one rail on the half-built railway, than to rebuild the vehicles.
In 1864 cargo traffic was started on a part of the railway. In 1866 the 35 km long Köping-Uttersberg railway was opened officially. In the year 1880 a new railway, the Uttersberg-Riddarhyttan railway was built by another company, with the same gauge. It was purchased by the Köping-Uttersberg company in 1911, and the combined railway was called Köping-Uttersberg-Riddarhyttan Railway. The passenger traffic was closed down in year 1952, and the last part of the freight traffic in 1968. All rails were afterwards removed.
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