Halmstad Bolmen Railway

[1] The chamber of commerce of Halmstadt contracted captain Wilhelm Gagner of the civil engineering corps to provide a cost estimate for building a railway line from the terminus of the Vislanda–Bolmens Järnväg (ViBJ) in Bolmen to Halmstad.

During a meeting on 28 August 1885 in Halmstad, he proposed that a railway line could be built at a cost of 1,499 mio Swedish Crowns.

The local politician Landshövding Carl Nordenfalk, Friherre D. E. Stjerncrona and the land owner and Member of the Riksdag Ivar Lyttkens from Skedala and A. L. Apelstam, N. Lundell, C. F. von Sydow, A. E. Pihl, C. G. Löfström, G. Bengtsson and C. Leander Larsson applied for a concession for a railway line crossing the Fettjesund at a cost estimate of 1,441 mio Crones.

Carl Johan Jehander, also known as Swedish railway king ("Järnvägskungen"), was chosen as general contractor at a value of 1,29 mio Crones.

The Swedish rail statistics (Svensk Järnvägsstatistik) list the cost for building the track as 1.719.976 Crowns.

A roundhouse with eight tracks and a turn table with a diameter of 8 m (26 ft) was built in Halmstad south of the station building.

The following rolling stock was used: Seven passenger coaches and two combined luggage and post carriages with two axles each as well as 56 goods waggons were purchased.

The rolling stock increased over time: finally HBJ owned 7 passenger cars with two axles each, 3 passenger cars with bogies and 3 combined luggage and post carriages as well as 116 goods waggons with two axles each and 6 goods waggons with bogies.

Carl Johan Jehander, the general contractor for building the line from Halmstad to Bolmen, owned a steam saw, which had been built in 1888 in Lidhult.

It was 2,5 km (1.5 miles) long and was used by two trains per day, to transport goods and passengers from the steam ships Vega or Freya, which crossed the lake to Södra Unnaryd.

The saw mill owner Frans Andersson pleaded to the government of prime minister Per Albin Hansson to keep the track in operation.

The dam over the lake was left in place, so that the saw mill owner could build a road for heavy lorries.