{"id":30,"date":"2021-05-15T08:58:12","date_gmt":"2021-05-15T07:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wfj.se\/?page_id=30"},"modified":"2025-12-19T16:32:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T15:32:45","slug":"startsida","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wfj.se\/gb\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Welcome to Sweden&#8217;s oldest preserved narrow gauge railway, in the beautiful town of Vadstena<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">The Wadstena Fogelsta Railway* was one of the first two narrow-gauge railways in the region of \u00d6sterg\u00f6tland, and opened to traffic in 1874. The track gauge is 891 mm, which corresponds to three <em>Swedish<\/em> feet. The 9.6 km (6 mile) long section between Vadstena and F\u00e5gelsta is the only remaining part of the once-extensive narrow gauge network in \u00d6sterg\u00f6tland of approximately 450 km (280 miles).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Since 1974, this last part of the narrow gauge railway has been run by the Wadstena Fogelsta J\u00e4rnv\u00e4g museum association (WFJ). It is a non-profit association that operates historic trains in traffic on the railway, so that we can experience mid-20th century travel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">We welcome you to take a ride on our trains, cycle a rail-bike along the track or just <br>take a walk in the fantastic surroundings of Vadstena station yard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em>*\u201dWadstena\u201d and \u201dFogelsta\u201d are the old spellings of Vadstena and F\u00e5gelsta, that were used when the railway was inaugurated.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-black-color has-text-color\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wfj.se\/gb\/aka-tag\/\">Travel by Train<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wfj.se\/gb\/aka-tag\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/wfj.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/image.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-965\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wfj.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/image.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/wfj.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/image-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/wfj.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/image-768x432.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wfj.se\/gb\/cykla-dressin\/\" data-type=\"page\">Cycle Rail-Bike<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" src=\"https:\/\/wfj.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/20200731_dressin_vadstena_fagelsta1242-edited-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-762\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wfj.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/20200731_dressin_vadstena_fagelsta1242-edited-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wfj.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/20200731_dressin_vadstena_fagelsta1242-edited-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wfj.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/20200731_dressin_vadstena_fagelsta1242-edited-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wfj.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/20200731_dressin_vadstena_fagelsta1242-edited-1536x865.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/wfj.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/20200731_dressin_vadstena_fagelsta1242-edited-2048x1153.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Foto Jeppe Gustafsson\/Bild \u00d6sterg\u00f6tland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/wfj.se\/gb\/historia-om-wfj\/\">WFJ\u2019s History<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wfj.se\/gb\/historia-om-wfj\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wfj.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Vadstena-stn-1920t-tonad-besk-edited-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Denna bild har ett alt-attribut som \u00e4r tomt. Dess filnamn \u00e4r Vadstena-stn-1920t-tonad-besk-edited-1-scaled.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/wfj.se\/gb\/museiforening-wfj\/\">WFJ Museum Association<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wfj.se\/gb\/museiforening-wfj\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"780\" src=\"https:\/\/wfj.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Vadstena_lokstall_2_lok_080830_CB-1024x780.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wfj.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Vadstena_lokstall_2_lok_080830_CB-1024x780.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wfj.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Vadstena_lokstall_2_lok_080830_CB-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wfj.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Vadstena_lokstall_2_lok_080830_CB-768x585.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wfj.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Vadstena_lokstall_2_lok_080830_CB-1536x1170.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/wfj.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Vadstena_lokstall_2_lok_080830_CB-2048x1561.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"250\" style=\"border:0\" loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed\/v1\/place?q=place_id:ChIJhamI2_TFW0YR6pbGGAyOOEw&amp;key=AIzaSyAqnVuTs6q3O3bhbMDldHWfnSFQHc3nnPY\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Sweden&#8217;s oldest preserved narrow gauge railway, in the beautiful town of Vadstena The Wadstena Fogelsta Railway* was one of the first two narrow-gauge&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-30","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"gb","enabled_languages":["sv","gb","de"],"languages":{"sv":{"title":false,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"gb":{"title":false,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"de":{"title":false,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wfj.se\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wfj.se\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wfj.se\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wfj.se\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wfj.se\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":189,"href":"https:\/\/wfj.se\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1535,"href":"https:\/\/wfj.se\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions\/1535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wfj.se\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}