Spårvägssällskapet Ringlinien, Working life museum in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Spårvägssällskapet Ringlinien is a working life museum in Gothenburg that holds a large collection of historical trams and transportation equipment from various periods of the city's development. The exhibition presents original preserved vehicles and equipment that demonstrate how public transportation operated in the city.
The society was founded in 1981, but the museum in Gårdahallen opened on 6 May 2011, during Ringlinien's 30th anniversary, when Göteborgs Spårvägar CEO Lars-Börje Björfjäll stamped a ticket machine of type BM. The collection preserves trams and buses of historical interest, and the society has run scheduled veteran tram services on the Lisebergslinjen every summer since its founding and in winter Christmas traffic since 2000.
The name Ringlinien keeps the old spelling once shown on the destination signs of vintage trams; it refers to the figure-eight loop once run by lines 1 and 2 in opposite directions. The heritage trams on the Liseberg line carry number 12, a number that happened to be free when scheduled service began, not a fusion of 1 and 2. The association also runs charter trips for weddings and company events.
The museum in Gårdahallen is open on Sundays from September to May, and at other times by appointment for groups; bookings and opening hours are posted on Ringlinien's website. A museum visit can be combined with a guided tour of the old trams in the depot hall. The society's heritage trams otherwise run on the Lisebergslinjen between Centralstationen and Liseberg, and also during the Christmas traffic.
Visitors can experience what it felt like to operate an older tram through a simulator equipped with an authentic driver's console from a vintage model. This hands-on activity provides a sense of the skill required to manage these complex machines.
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