Monday, September 26, 2011

SJ railbus at the Nora museum


Nora is a small town in lake and woodland roughly 250 km west of Stockholm and is sited on a lake of the same name. The first normal gauge railway in Sweden was opened to the public in 1856 between Nora and Ervalla. The station is today a museum railway, worked by a preservation society.   A separate platform is used by railcars which do the long Inlandsbana run from here to Gällivare in the north in summer.

The YB06 diesel railbus or railcar seen here was built in 1956 by the company AB Svenska Järnvägsverkstaderna (ASJ) in Linkoping, Sweden.

Specifications:
Wheel arrangement: B-2
Engine: Scania Vabis d815
Output: 200 hp (145 kW)
Transmission: Wilson r11b
Length: 17.55 metres
Wheelbase: 2.0+10.7 metres
Seating places: 53
Service weight 19 tons
Max speed: 115 km/h

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