A journey to Sweden, 1989: Gällivare

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For one day, we made a sightseeing tour through Gällivare's underground ore mines. On the next day, we left southwards. While we waited for our train down the inlandsban, I took some photos at Gällivare's station:

Station building, Gällivare, 26.7.1989

A train to Stockholm arrives:

SJ Rc4 1173, Gällivare, 26.7.1989

My first shot of the interlocking frame with the train director at the controls came out blurred, unfortunately:

Interlocking frame, Gällivare, 26.7.1989

Here is the frame once more. The upper row is obviously used for clearing shunting signals and barriers, whereas the lower one contains the points levers and the route and signal levers. This type of interlocking frame has a purely electric locking logic, thus, it is not an electro-mechanical interlocking:

Interlocking frame, Gällivare, 26.7.1989

The track panel contains the indicators for signals, track circuits, route locks and, at the upper left, a large gauge for displaying the current while reversing points:

Interlocking frame, Gällivare, 26.7.1989

This picture shows the rows of levers and their labels:

Interlocking frame, Gällivare, 26.7.1989

Here is an enlargement from the previous picture, with the labels of the first few levers. From left to right, one can see the following abbreviations:

• 7h Dvärgsignal | 7v Dvärgsignaler a,b,c,d,e,f,g,i,k och l | + 8 – Växel
• + 10 – Växel
• V¹ Fällbommar ned | V¹ Fällbommar upp | + 12 – Växel | 4–20 Lokalimläggning
• V² Fällbommar ned | V² Fällbommar upp | + 14 – Växel

In English:

• 7h shunting signal | 7v shunting signals a,b,c,d,e,f,g,i,k and l | + 8 – points
• + 10 – points
• V¹ lower barriers | V¹ raise barriers | + 12 – points | 4–20 local control
• V² lower barriers | V² raise barriers | + 14 – points

On can see that on this frame type, points get even numbers and signals odd numbers:

Interlocking frame, Gällivare, 26.7.1989

How I could, finally, take one photo of this shunting engine through the rungs of a wagon in front of it, but the next one without them, I cannot remember:

SJ Ud 863, Gällivare, 26.7.1989

SJ Ud 863, Gällivare, 26.7.1989

From Gällivare, we went back to Vilhelmina for a few days, to do nothing.