De bortglömda trädgårdarna. Järnvägsplanteringar längs Karlsborgsbanan under 100 år

Abstract

This study focuses on the gardens and plantations developed by the railway organization for gardening, an organization that formed and designed parks and plantations on and around the railway environments in Sweden between 1862 – 1973. The study mainly examines the two railway stations Tibro and Karlsborg. What the garden formations looked like at the stations and how they changed over time from when the railway line was first built in 1876 until the point that the railway organization for gardening shut down in 1973. The background section presents a review of the railway organization for gardening; the hierarchical way in which the organization was built up, the visions and the different purposes the organization had with its extensive work, but also to what extend the organization affected the horticultural development in the country. The background section also includes a short review of the history behind the railway line Karlsborgsbanan and how it came to be built as a part of the state railway system in spite of it’s limited distance. The study is then focused around the material gathered by inventories at the stations and the method of interpreting historical photography’s from which the different states, developments and changes of the parks and plantations around Tibro and Karlsborgs railway stations are construed. The study establishes different garden and park formations that have been prevailing at the two stations, and also shows what historical garden elements that can still be found today. The study reaches the conclusion that some of these garden elements should be looked upon as historically interesting and conservation worthy.