SRJ 1-20

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Above: photo from SRJ 50 years anniversary book. It’s probably coach number 1 since it doesn’t seem to have any post compartment. At the 50 years anniversary, 1935, the raillway put together a ”historical” train exclusively with coaches of the original set.

Left: Scheme of coaches 1 and 2. The scheme is a suggestion; the coaches were not necessarily built this way. Published in Roslagsbanan och bygden [1985]

Exterior and interior of SRJ 14 after restaruation. Both photographies taken 2010-07-07, exterior photo in Marielund.

Nr	Built	Class	Rebuilt into, year	Seats 1913†	Weight [kg] 1913†	With-drawn	Scrap	Notes
1	1885	B	C 1910	16	6350	1925	same yr	Reclassified only, not rebuilt.
2	1885	B	CD 1909	3	6200	1940	same yr	May have been class BD for a brief period. Two comparments rebuilt to post comparment, one second class compartment kept.‡
3	1885	BC	C 1909	25	5850	1926	same yr	Reclassified only, not rebuilt.
4	1885	BC	C 1909	25	5850	1926	same yr	Reclassified only, not rebuilt.
5	1885	C	CD bef 1913	20	5750	1930	same yr	One third class compartment rebuilt to post compartment‡
6	1885	C	CD bef 1913	7	6100	1940	no info	Three third class compatments rebuilt to post compartment‡
7	1885	C	CD bef 1913	20	5750	1940	same yr	One third class compartment rebuilt to post compartment‡
8	1885	C		31	5350	1933	no info
9	1885	C		31	5350	1939	preserv SRJmf	1964 SJ maintenance car 606413 Stockholm
10	1885	C		31	5350	no info	1963
11	1886	B	C 1910	20	5900	no info	no info	Reclassified only, not rebuilt
12	1886	B	C 1910	20	5900	1926	no info	Reclassified only, not rebuilt
13	1886	C		30	5800	no info	1966
14	1886	C		30	5800	1939	preserv SRJmf	1964 SJ maintenance car 606414 Stockholm
15	1886	C	CD bef 1913 (or 1908)	7	6100	no info	preserv JTJ	Three third class compartments reubilt to post compartment‡
16	1887	C		30	5800	no info	1948
17	1887	C		30	5800	no info	no info
18	1887	C		30	6000	no info	1963
19	1887	BC	C 1910	25	5350	no info	1963
20	1887	B	B/ambulance	20	6600	no info	1963	Reclassified C/ambulance 1923

† Number of seats and weight obtaind from rolling stock list of 1913.
‡ How much of the car rebuilt into post compartment is a guess based on the remaining number of seats.
Text in different colour are not verified facts, and hence not all certain.

Sources: Roslagsexpressen 4/86, and Skendöd i Roslagen.

Analysis of number of seats in 1913

The first ten coaches seems to differ sligtly from the later coaches.

Generally, ther is one seat less in compartments at the coachs’ end. This is so the door to the end platform can be in the center of the wall.

Class	Delivered	Numbers	Seats	Possible compartments	Notes
C	1885	5-10	31	8+8+8+7
C	1886-7	13-18	30	7+8+8+7
BC	1885-7	3-4, 19	25	7+8+7+3 alt 7+8+6+4	Underscored numbers second class seats
B	1885	1-2	16	4+12 (double compart)
B	1886-7	11-12, 20	20	4+6+6+4 alt 10 + 10	Two double compartments likely. Otherwise would 22 seats: 5+6+6+5 more natural.

SRJ 1-20

These were Stockholm-Rimbo Järnväg (S-R railway, note the original name) first set of passenger coahes and were delivered 1885-1887. They were the only two-axis passenger coaches this particular railway ever ordered, the rest were bogie coaches, and this i very unusual; practically all other swedish railways bought two axis passeger coaches well into the 20th century.

The coaches were delivered in thee batches. Judging from differences i weight and passenger capacity, it seems like the coaches of 1885 were different from the others. Some of the coaches had three double windows, while all preserved coaches had four. It’s not entirely clear which the tree-window coaches were, but number 1 and 2 is a qualified guess.

They were all manufactured by Atlas (todays Atlas Copco) presumably but not necessarily Stockholm.
Length 7,82 m; wheel base 3,48 m (according to the 1913 list of rolling stock).

SRJ 1-20