Before the introduction of locomotive-driven railways in Sweden in the 1850s, there were already transports on tracks. Usually, the traffic was powered by horses, which walked in the middle of the tracks and pulled one or more wagons behind them.

The horse-drawn railway wagon above you comes from Höganäs and is on loan from Höganäs Museum. Its exact age is uncertain, but its construction dates back to the mid 1800s. The bridge is modeled after one on the Norrköping-Fiskeby railway.

On tracks, a horse could pull wagons much more easily than on the poor roads of the time. In places where there were no proper roads, it was also easier to build a horse-drawn railway than a road. Generally, horse-drawn railways did not have public traffic but only transported the owner's goods. They were not intended to carry passengers.