House (NO)

For many years this house has stood empty next to the E6 towards Oslo. The sound of cars and trucks and the motorway bridge next to it makes it understandable that no one want to live here. The owner want to demolish it and build office buildings here. The problem is that it lies within a 100 meter limit the Public Roads Administration (Vegvesenet) has placed along the road. This limit will ensure better development of the road in the future and protect against noise and dust to the surrounding homes / offices.

The house has two floors plus attic and vandalism is extremely clear. There is almost no windows left and no doors (except for some stacked in a room). It is said to be the last residents who took the doors and windows. Inside there is rubbish on the floors but really not much exciting to see. An overturned water tank, Mickey Mouse wallpaper on a child’s room and some old LP covers.

The house is now demolished.

The house next to the highway

Exterior of abandoned house

Just some windows left

Entrance

Garden wall on the back

Interior – flipped water tank

Quite trashed and vandalized

Living room with sofa

Interior walls

Stair to the loft

Old record

House in Skee (SE)

This small house was located along the railway line in Skee south of Strömstad in Sweden. 0,6 km south of here lies Skee station.  Right next to the house the traffic on E6 thunders. Beside the house there is a shed or garage. A small underground cellar with a door into a mound is also on site. The house is empty, all the windows broken and otherwise I do not know much about the place and why it was abandoned. Generally there are quite a lot of these houses along the roads of Sweden, many more than in Norway.

Nice looking garden

Railroad track and the E6 road is next to the house

The place is quite small with no windows left

The fireplace is gone and so are the furnitures

The kitchen

Front of the house with entrance

Toilet shot

Peeling paint on the disused flagpole

Cellar door

Skee station (SE)

Right beside the E6 motorway, in the village of Skee in Strömstad municipality in Sweden, is an abandoned train station. The station lies deserted with windows and doors nailed shut. The railway line also looked quite old and unused, but trains are still running here. It is the 18 mil long Bohus Line between Gothenburg and Strömstad.

The line was originally planned as a train line from Skåne, all along the coast to Norway. The construction of the stretch Uddevalla – Skee was started in 1900. So the station is quite old. After the dissolution of the union in 1905, the plan for a tramline to Norway was dropped and the northernmost station became Strömstad. The freight traffic never took off on the line, but passenger trains are going still. The northern part of the line is in poor condition while the stretch from Uddevalla and south was renovated in 1990 and allows for fast trains of the Regina type to run there. They have a top speed of 200 km/h and the railways southern part allows speeds up to 140 km/h.

It is just about 2,5 mil between Østfoldbanen in Norway to the Swedish Bohus Line. Many still want to complete the more than 100-year-old plans to link the Norwegian and the Swedish railway. This will facilitate the availability along the coast, decrease the freight traffic on the roads and make the railway faster to Gothenburg.

There were other abandoned buildings along the track. Among other things, a small housing that comes in next post.

Skee station

Boarded up

Sign with distances

Building along the track

Some stuff inside

The track looks old, but looks can deceive. They are still in use.

Railroad detail

And then the Regina train arrived