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The Getå Landslide, Sweden,1918.


The Getå Landslide occurred on a steep down towards Bråviken in Norrköping Municipality.
Coordinates: 58°39'54.83"N  16°15'12.70"E

The rail road "accident" in connection with the landslide occurred on October 1, 1918, near Getå. The current railway line had been opened on October 1, 1915. Train 422 had departed from Malmö at 7.00 a.m.. The three last stations on which it stopped were Mjölby, Norrköping and Åby. The train departed from Åby at 6:54 p.m.. It derailed about 1.5 km west of Getå.


The train pulled down telephone poles in the crash. High on the right is the edge of the
embankment. The restaurant carridge is on its edge. The locomotive is in the foreground.


The first three carriages behind the locomotive crashed toward the road below the
embankment. They had a structure in wood. They caught fire. The steel skeleton from a carriage is
visible in the center of the picture. The restaurant carriage to the left was hanging on the edge of the
embankment.

In 1918 there was no electrification of the Swedish rail road network. The lights inside the carriages were lamps powered by acetylene gas. There was a gas tank in each carridge. Survivors have testified that the carriages closest to the locomotive were quickly in flames. The reason was that gas ran out of damaged gas tanks. The Railway Board claimed that it was glowing coal from the locomotive that caused the fire. At the same time, it was stated as "proof" that the stoker, Mr. Carlsson, died when he got glowing coal over him. Most of the dead were in the three carriages near the locomotive. They were burned to death.


The remains of a burnt out carriage.


About 45 m of the rails ended up on the road. Railroad workers dismantle the rail.


To the right towards the edge of the embankment is the restaurant carridge. Bråviken on the left.


The landslide seen from above. Some of the masses slipped into Bråviken. As the train
approached the landslide scene it was in compact darkness. The speed was 60-70 km / h.
The rails hung in the air. They were pressed down by the train until they burst at both edges
of the landslide. The width of the landslide at the rails was about 45 m. The restaurant carriage
is visible in the middle to the right and the locomotive on the left. In between, the remains of
the burnt out carriages are visible.


The yellow dotted line is the top of the embankment.

In October 1918, the end of the First World War was approaching. Germany's capitulation was imminent. The disappointment within the German-friendly part of the Swedish establishment was great. My assumption is that right-wing Swedish militaries are behind the Getå landslide. People in the engineering troops possessed the skills required to carry out the terrorist act. The preparations have included calculations of the strength of the embankment. The landslide has been started from the top of the steep. The task was to release sufficient landslide mass above the embankment to initiate its landslide. The most likely thing is that they triggered an explosive charge as high up on the steep as possible. There was no properties near the landslide scene. The blasting could be carried out without any disturbance. At the bottom of the steep is a memorial stone. The height from the road to the top of the embankment is about 8 meters. The height from the top of the embankment to the crest of the steep is about 10 meters. At the crest a rock formation is visible. The incline of the steep is about 45 degrees.

Media reported on the Getå landslide. Östergötlands Folkblad stated that hundreds of people were killed or injured. At the same time, a communiqué from the Swedish Railway Board is published. There, the Board stated (in summary):

125 people are thought to have been on the train. The train set consisted of a locomotive plus 8 carridges. The last three carridges in the train set remained on the embankment after the derailment. A landslide had occurred and was the cause of the derailment.

The newspaper Dalpilen writes that the train set consisted of a locomotive plus seven carridges. Four "followed in the depth". The restaurant carriage was the last of the four. Three carriages were left on the railway.

On October 2, the Swedish Railway Board launched an investigation. The landslide was investigated by the National Geotechnical Commission of the National Railways. According to the Commission's final report (dated 1922), the landslide was described as sliding along a "bowl-shaped cut surface". The landslide occurred mainly from the top of the embankment and downwards but also to some extent from above the embankment. The month before the landslide had been unusually rainy.


At the bottom left there are four people standing on what is left of the embankment. On their
upper right side you can see part of the landslide above the embankment. My view is that these
landslide masses have been initiated via an explosive charge higher up on the steep. The filler
material in the embankment looks dry and fine. It indicates that it was well draining.

The Getå landslide is the largest terrorist act ever to have occurred in Sweden. I believe that it was primarily directed at the forces that opposed Germany's warfare. The Social Democratic Party leader Hjalmar Branting was the leader of the resistance in Sweden. He was party leader for the Social Democrats from 1907 and in 1920 became Sweden's first Social Democratic Prime Minister.



The "accident" has been named "The Getå Landslide" after the nearby place Getå. The purpose of the name is racist and refers to the semen donor Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf who later became King Gustaf VI Adolf. Under the New World Order section I show his position in Jehovah's insemination system. There may have been dissatisfaction among the German-friendly with Jehovah's choice of him as the alpha male. Gustaf VI Adolf was of British descent. He was at this time married to the British Princess Margaret of Connaught. There was no doubt where his sympathies lay during the First World War.

Wikipedia states the number of passengers on the train to 170, the number of fatalities to 42 and the number of injured to 41. In fact, the disinformation submitted in connection with the "accident" means that no one knows for sure the exact figures. The burnt-out carriages also made the identification work very difficult.


A memorial stone has been erected
at the landslide scene.
Coordinates: 58°39'54.83"N  16°15'12.70"E