SJ, Swedish State Railways was separated 1988, that SJ manage the rolling stock and Banverket established to manage the infrastructure.

Banverket is a high tech authority with more than 14 milliard sek in annual turnover. Banverket is worldleading in ATP, Automatic Train Protection.

Banverket maintain and develop the technical system who together establish a modern railwaysystem. The main task is to plan, build and maintain the 10 000 km state main track.

We maintain the roadbed and tracks, shuntings, electrical-, signaling-, and telecommunications.

At the moment there is a extensive reconstruction and new construction to modernize the railway to meet the demands in the future to keep a non-pulluting, safety and effective part of the Swedish transportation system.

7 363 people is employed in Banverket at working sites all over the country, of these is 809 women. (sept 1997)

The director general: