Statens Järnvägar

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Statens Järnvägar
Type Government agency
Founded 1856
Headquarters Sweden
Products Rail transports

Statens Järnvägar, or Swedish State Railways, was a former enterprise agency of the Swedish government. It was disbanded in 2001 and the assets were transferred to six separate government-owned limited companies:

  • SJ, the passenger train operator
  • Green Cargo, which operates freight trains
  • Jernhusen, real estate
  • EuroMaint, train maintenance
  • Unigrid, information technology
  • TraffiCare, which provides terminal services, e.g. train cleaning and switching


In other languages