Tomas Fredriksson during a visit to Nora, which was a transshipment point for the iron produced in Bergslagen. Photo: Annika Forsberg

Nora Bergslagen’s railway began here and ended in Otterbäcken south of Gullspång, where material from the Bergslagsindustriern went on by boat via Trollhättan and Gothenburg to customers abroad. England and Germany were clamoring for Swedish steel.