The railway, which was inaugurated as early as 1877, has always played a significant role in Oxelösund’s development. From a small pilot and fishing community, Oxelösund has developed into today’s modern industrial location with SSAB as the largest player and user of the railway and port.
The association maintains, preserves, and displays historical railway vehicles, objects, and stories, connecting the historical railway environment with today’s commercial traffic. At Oxelösund Railway Museum’s 350-meter-long area, which was inaugurated in June 2022, there are many things to see:
- Railway Park,
- The track watch’s cabin is an exhibition hall with pictures, objects, stories, and entrance. A section specifically for children is available in the track watch’s cabin where you can play with model trains and press various buttons.< li>
- The locomotive shed with steam locomotives and other vehicles as well as a workshop,
- The goods warehouse with an outdoor vehicle exhibition containing exhibitions,
- The café cart from 1929,
- A yard and a vehicle hall of 1000 m2 where you can see among other unique railway wagons.
Throughout the museum, there are information signs and audio guides, which you can listen to via your own phone through the Storyspot app.
As part of the museum’s operations, excursions with steam or electric locomotive-drawn trains with wagons from the 1930s and 1950s occur, mainly within Södermanland and towns around the railways here.
FSVJ collaborates with several museums, local history associations, and companies to ensure that the experience of Sörmland becomes something to remember!
All of the association’s announced trips are open to everyone, regardless of whether you are a member or not. Welcome to travel or visit us!
FSVJ’s core focus for the museum’s activities is the railway’s significance for Oxelösund’s development from a small fishing community with 1,200 inhabitants to a high-tech industrial town with 15,000 inhabitants. From the construction of the railway, the city developed slowly until the explosive expansion of the 1950s/60s.
In addition to Oxelösund’s history from a railway perspective, FSVJ aims to showcase the development that has occurred on Swedish railways. The steam locomotives with their characteristics, the diesel locomotives that replaced them, and the powerful electric locomotives that hauled the long heavy trains around the country. Wagon development following increased needs and new techniques are also represented.
In the 1950s-60s, electrification came to Oxelösund. TGOJ adapted vehicles and buildings to enable the use of the new railway vehicles. TGOJ built new passenger and ore train locomotives during this time. The older passenger cars pulled by steam locomotives were replaced by more modern motor coaches, except for a few passenger cars, which are now museum vehicles in Grängesberg. Simultaneously, the locomotive shed in Oxelösund was rebuilt so that the electric locomotives could use the turntable and be housed in the shed. Today, the locomotive shed retains this appearance, and the overhead contact line remains above the functioning turntable, something that is very unusual to see in today’s railway Sweden.
As a museum, FSVJ connects the various parts that show how the railway was largely the starting point for the massive development in the city. Today, the association has the large ore train locomotive Ma 408 from 1958 with two old ore wagons. The railbus X21-9 was one of the railbuses that took care of passenger traffic to and from Oxelösund from the mid-50s until the closure in 1985. The locomotive shed, which is FSVJ’s museum, was built in stages until 1938, but was restored and adapted for electric operation in the mid-1950s.