>>909603Turku is probably the worst offender on what comes to destroying perfectly good neo-classical buildings under shady circumstances so much so that it's known as "Turun tauti" (Turku diseace / Åbosmittan på det andtra inhemska sråk).
In other ways, Turku is a bad picture, because they didn't have any interurban lines, no matter how much the term is stretched. I just found the picture nice, that is all. In Helsinki, with only slight generosity, the former lines KB, K, M and H, specially because the traffic authority of the day called them such, though it had more to do with ticket pricing than operation principle. Also M and H + KB were originally build and briefly operated by fully private companies.
I find your many "three foor" lines fascinating, specially as quite many, I understand survived up to mid 60s or so and the last days of passenger and small parcel traffic was handled by rail buses.
The three foot network in the southern Sweden seems quite extensive, what I can interpret from the maps online, but there seem to be many small companies with tracklenght from few tens to few hundreds of kilometers, how much these separate networks were connected and how much through traffic happened at the heyday of these railroads, or were they all separate systems, serving local standard gauge railheads and maybe harbors / lake harbors?
If anyone has bothered to read this flow of consciousness, here's a knob: what's happening in the pic?
