HistoryPhotos

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/57692210

I have posted pictures from my old home train station from way before I stomped around there, and here is another.

The train station can be seen on the right side of the picture, you can see that the waiting hall extension I mentioned in my last post has not been built yet.

I just noticed something interesting, there is a garden with trees in neat rows just to the left of the station, my mom used to mention that there was abandoned apple trees in that area and there must have been a garden there, turns out she was right! I gotta show her this...

The lake in the background is Rönningesjön, a lake where I learned to swim.

I can see the road where my parents house is located, though not the actual house.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/57691613

The earlier picture was taken in the 1920s, this is the same station in 1940.

You can see that the station house have been expanded, and the railroad has been electrified.

Both these buildings exist and are in use today, the large house is a successful toy shop and the old station house hosts a café.

I find pictures of Sweden from this time to be interesting as they look so peaceful while WWII was raging not only with Germany's neighbors, but our neighbors as well, Finland fought the Soviet Union, Germany fought Norway and Denmark and we sat in the middle, escaping the horrors of war.

The photographer is unkown, but the photo belongs to Spårvägsmuseet (the Stockholm Public Transport museum) and is licensed as CC-BY-NC

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/57622924

I have posted pictures of Roslagsbanan before, but this station means a lot to me.

This is my home station, where I grew up between 1993 or so until I moved out from the area in 2014.

Roslagsbanan itself means a lot to me and my dad, we are both interested in trains, my dad worked on Roslagsbanan at the start of his career which turned him into a highly technical sales man for railroad systems.

I took a different path with my career and work in IT instead, but I commuted on the railroad and both me and my dad have been active in the heritage railroad society in Uppsala that uses part of the old Roslagsbanan network.

I have written about the railroad in older posts, so I won't go into details here, but I can tell you about the station.

The station has been rebuilt several times, changing track and plattform layouts as needed.

The station house was expanded since this photo was taken, at one point it was a classic waiting room for trains, then i was closed for many years, and have for a decade plus now been a nice café, the top floor is a private domicile.

The mast thing you can see in the background is a railway semafor signal.

I will post more stuff as I find it.

The photographer is unkown, but the license is CC-BY-NC-BY