Blå Tåget

Blå Tåget was born from a difficult season at Gröna Lund. When the earlier Skräckexpressen was destroyed by fire in 1935, the park commissioned a new ghost train of its own, giving the work to engineer Thure Rengman. The new attraction took the name Blå Tåget and remained in the same part of the park. historia.gronalund.com· historia.gronalund.com

Rengman also fashioned the original figures in his own workshop. Ropes, pulleys and carefully arranged electric lights gave the old ride its movement, with skeletons rising from barrels and other surprises waiting in the darkness. It was an ingenious piece of fairground workmanship, made for a park beside the Stockholm water. historia.gronalund.com

In 1967 the attraction was altered and renamed Spökliften, carrying visitors through a storybook landscape in ski-lift chairs. The change did not prove successful, and in 1982 Gröna Lund restored the name Blå Tåget, fitting the old building with new cars supplied by the German firm Zierer. historia.gronalund.com

For the 2011 season, the fire-prone building was demolished and rebuilt to the same outward appearance. Beneath it came a completely new track layout and new effects, together with twelve cars modelled on photographs of the original four-passenger vehicles. The result preserved the familiar silhouette while giving this Stockholm classic a safer and more modern railway beneath the walls. historia.gronalund.com· gronalund.com