Photo Courtesy of Andreas Behm
Goetheborg
Light rail subway
 
Goteborg''s first tram opened in 1879, with electrification beginning in 1902. The 12 routes cover 117 km km of track, 2 of which are underground, remnants for 1960's plans for a premetro gone bad. A city center 3 station tunnel is in the planning stages, and has been for over a decade. The newest plans call for a ground breaking in 2011, The existing underground section of Goteborg's tram system are actually in a suburban setting.

Most of Goteborg's tramway is grade sperated street running. The section to Angered is of light rail standards, although many Angered passsengers complain of slow tram speeds on sections built for higher speeds.

Photo courtesy Henrik Sendelbach

Urbanrail site
Göteborgs Spårvägar (Official Site)
Ringlinien Tramway Society (Goteborg trolley museum)
Göteborgs Spårvägar
Plans for new Kringen tram tunnel

Kiruna

Pictures from the Tramway in Kiruna

Malmo
A new rail line, including 6 km of tunnel, has been approved for Malmo. The town also has a heritage tramway.
 

Malmö Citytunnel Project Approved

THE Swedish government has approved a SKr 8.8 billion ($US 1 billion) project to build a new line through the centre of Malmö. As a result, pre-qualified contractors have been invited to bid for the first tunnelling contracts. However, construction cannot start until next year as public consultation still has to be completed and the Environmental Court must examine the project in terms of noise, vibration, and ground water reductions and discharges. "Of course there is a lot of work to be done before we can start digging but the project is entering a concrete and exciting phase," said Mr Örjan Larsson, Citytunnel's project manager.
The new line will enable trains using the Øresund link from Denmark and from Ystad and Trelleborg to follow a direct route to Malmö's Central station via the city centre. The project will also convert Malmö Central into a through station. A new 11km double-track line will be built from Malmö Central to the Øresund link. This section will have 6km of twin-bore tunnels and new stations at Triangeln and Hyllie. There will also be single-track connections to the lines to Trelleborg and Ystad. The project will be completed in 2009.

Norrköping
tramway

Built in 1904, the Norrköping tramway is a mere 13 km, 2 line shadow of it's former shadow.

Tramways in Norrköping
NORRKÖPINGS SPÅRVAGNAR
Trafikgruppen Norrköping - Official Home Page
Plan for possible third tram line
Vagnparken - railfan page dedicated to Norrkoping's tramways
Unga Spårvagnsentusiasters Intresseparti
ERS photos
Great photos

Photos Courtesy of Andreas Behm

Stockholm
 

Type	Full Metro
Stations	100 (+ one abandoned)
Lines	3
Length In Subway	63 km
Length Topside	37 km
Total Length	110 km
Year Built	1933
Address
Links	euroMetro: STOCKHOLM T-Bana Stockholms Subway Tramways in Lidingö Leif Spangberg's Transit Page - highly informative with many photos you won't see on other sites, covers Scandinavian trams and metros, plus several other European cities Swetramway - the whole Swedish tramway site! Swedish Railways (SJ), by Roland Bol Swedish University Network: Trains FUNET's Trams In Sweden Surf to the Stockholm Subway Fantastic Stockholm tramway site by Bruse Persson Stockholm's Tunnelbana - great, comprehensive site RBVs hemsida! Roslagsbanans Veterantågsförenings (urban rail) The Roslagsbanan is a three line light railway in the north-eastern parts of Stockholm. Narrowgauge 891 mm. Electrified Underground funicular in Stockholm
Comments	The Stockholm subway started out as a tram underground in 1933. It wasn't until 1953 that a full, newly developed metro opened, in large part an evolution of the old tram tunnels. Stockholm also has 4 distinct tram lines, each varied: # 12 - the Nockebybanan (5.7 km), # 7 - the Djurgården line (a 3.2 km museum line) # 21 - the 8.9 lm Lidingö linen (more of an interburban) # 22 - the Tvärbanan (Crossline), Alvik-Sickla-Udde. Modern Light Rail opened 1999-2002. In addition, the Saltsjöbanan is an urban LRT, partially in tunnel, that has been operating since the late 1800's. Other pseudo-subway and LRTs include the Roslagsbanan, the Nockebybanan and the new LRT subway, the 10 km Årstabanan

Nybohovs Hissbana is a small, underground funicular. It runs 230 meters through rock tunnel and underneath an apartment building. The cars interiors resembles the stockholm subway of the 1960's. It can be reached from the Liljeholmen station.

Home page

Great Swedish tramway site
Swetramway - the definitive Swedish tramway site
Stockholm's Line 19
The Whole Swedish Tramway Site
Lindingoban unofficial home page

Spånka (pronounced Sponka in English) is the Swedish slang for a tramway