Lerum
Encyclopedia
Lerum is a locality
and the seat of Lerum Municipality
in Västra Götaland County
, Sweden
. It had 15,819 inhabitants in 2005.
system and is a suburb of Gothenburg
.
The river of Säveån runs through Lerum municipality. 5 kilometers of it is surrounded by the nature reserve
Säveåns Naturreservat, where bridges dating back as far as the 18th century as well as a variety of animal life and beautiful nature can be found.
A control cable to the trailroad switches had been reconnected wrongly after being dug off by accident. So when the traffic was allowed to pass the station the Gothenburg bound train was switched over to the opposite track where an outbound train was arriving.
An off duty trainmaster reading the paper in one of the locomotive heard the train driver say "Helvete nu smäller det" (roughly translated: "Hell this´ll be a crash"). He managed to open the side door and leaped out, the trains collided when he was still in the air and despite doing this at 100 km/h he survived with just a broken foot.
The involved locomotives were RC4 1292 and 1300, they were scrapped on the spot.
Urban areas in Sweden
Urban area is a common English translation of the Swedish term tätort. The official term in English, used by Statistics Sweden, is, however, locality. There are 1,940 localities in Sweden . They could be compared with census-designated places in the United States.A tätort in Sweden has a minimum of...
and the seat of Lerum Municipality
Lerum Municipality
Lerum Municipality is a municipality in Västra Götaland County in western Sweden, situated just east of Gothenburg. Its seat is located in the town of Lerum....
in Västra Götaland County
Västra Götaland County
Västra Götaland County is a county or län on the western coast of Sweden.The county is the second largest of Sweden's counties and it is subdivided into 49 municipalities . Its population of 1,550,000 amounts to 17% of Sweden's population...
, Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
. It had 15,819 inhabitants in 2005.
Overview
Lerum has a station on the Gothenburg commuter railGothenburg commuter rail
Gothenburg commuter rail or Göteborgs pendeltåg is the commuter rail system associated with Gothenburg, Sweden. The trains go on the main-line tracks, shared with long-distance trains and freight trains. They are operated with X11 electric multiple units....
system and is a suburb of Gothenburg
Gothenburg
Gothenburg is the second-largest city in Sweden and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated on the west coast of Sweden, the city proper has a population of 519,399, with 549,839 in the urban area and total of 937,015 inhabitants in the metropolitan area...
.
The river of Säveån runs through Lerum municipality. 5 kilometers of it is surrounded by the nature reserve
Nature reserve
A nature reserve is a protected area of importance for wildlife, flora, fauna or features of geological or other special interest, which is reserved and managed for conservation and to provide special opportunities for study or research...
Säveåns Naturreservat, where bridges dating back as far as the 18th century as well as a variety of animal life and beautiful nature can be found.
Lerum Train Crash
Lerum hit the world's news bulletins on November 16, 1987, when two Intercity trains collided just outside the local station, killing 9 and injuring 140. (See Lists of rail accidents).A control cable to the trailroad switches had been reconnected wrongly after being dug off by accident. So when the traffic was allowed to pass the station the Gothenburg bound train was switched over to the opposite track where an outbound train was arriving.
An off duty trainmaster reading the paper in one of the locomotive heard the train driver say "Helvete nu smäller det" (roughly translated: "Hell this´ll be a crash"). He managed to open the side door and leaped out, the trains collided when he was still in the air and despite doing this at 100 km/h he survived with just a broken foot.
The involved locomotives were RC4 1292 and 1300, they were scrapped on the spot.
Schools
There are several schools in Lerum. (incomplete list)- Torpskolan
- Lerums gymnasiumLerums gymnasiumLerums gymnasium is an upper secondary school in Lerum, Sweden, 20 kilometres outside of Gothenburg.It's a relatively young school, founded as late as in 1980...