Lennakatten is a 33-kilometre narrow-gauge heritage railway running from Uppsala Östra to Faringe through Uppland. Opened in 1876 to serve Länna’s ironworks, the line now carries historic trains and preserves a working landscape of stations, track and railway craft.
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Upsala-Lenna Jernväg opened in 1876 to connect Uppsala with the ironworks at Länna.
The line uses 891 mm narrow gauge; Sweden’s mainline railways use 1,435 mm standard gauge.
Heritage trains began running in 1974, and the Uppsala–Faringe line has been a dedicated museum railway since 1977.
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At Uppsala Östra, the heritage railway begins beside the platforms of modern Uppsala Central Station. Listen for a change in scale: the mainline trains serve the national network, while Lennakatten’s smaller 891-millimetre gauge points east toward the villages, forests and former industrial places of Uppland. The railway is both a journey and a surviving piece of regional infrastructure.
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