Kiruna, Sweden (1997)

Kiruna is a nice town in the north of Sweden. Most of pictures are from 1997.
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A young town
After years of discussion, and with English entrepreneurship, however, construction did begin. At most, 4,000 navvies worked on the railway construction. The first ore train left Malmberget heading for Luleå on 12 March 1888 and appropriately the driver was an Englishman, whose name was Robertson. The railway reached Kiruna at the turn of the century, and just two years later had reached Narvik. The Ore Line was opened by King Oscar II in 1903. Kiruna counts 1900 as its birth year, when the Crown approved the town plan. In that year, most of the newly arrived settlers spent the winter in the new community. After that, the population increased dramatically, and by 1910 Kiruna already had 7,500 inhabitants. Kiruna's population was at its greatest in the mid-1970s, with just over 31,000 inhabitants. After a couple of decades of substantial outward migration, a stable level of around 23,000 has been reached.

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