EUROMAINT, Sweden, announced on December 28 that it has sold all of its shares in its German rolling stock maintenance business to Iberia Capital Group, Luxembourg, for an undisclosed sum.

REGULAR passenger services returned to the Swedish town of Trelleborg for the first time since the 1970s on December 12, when Skånetrafiken introduced Pågatåg regional services on the 34km Continental Line from Malmö.

SWEDEN's enterprise minister Mr Mikael Damberg drove the inaugural train through the 8.7km Hallandsås tunnel on December 9. Construction of what is now the cournty's longest tunnel started as long ago as 1992.

STOCKHOLM County Council announced on December 8 that it has selected MTR Nordic, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hong Kong's MTR Corporation, for a concession to operate the Stockholm Pendeltåg suburban rail network for 10 years from December 2016.

SWEDISH national passenger operator SJ has won two contracts to operate regional passenger services in central and southwest Sweden.

GREATER Stockholm Local Transport (SL), which is responsible for the urban rail network in the Swedish capital, has awarded a SKr 270m ($US 31.5m) contract to Veidekke Anläggning Öst and subcontractor Eltel to rebuild Roslags Näsby station on the 891mm-gauge Roslagsbanan.

Denmark's bold decision to renew its entire signalling infrastructure raised eyebrows across the signalling community when details of its plans first emerged nearly 10 years ago. With work on the major contracts now well underway, Kevin Smith visited Banedanmark in Copenhagen to find out how the project is progressing.

PUBLIC services have resumed on Stockholm's Lidingö Line following the completion of a two-year project to comprehensively rebuild the 9.1km former suburban railway as a tram line.

ALSTOM announced on October 2 that it has completed its acquisition of Swedish rolling stock refurbishment and heavy maintenance specialist Motala Train.

TWENTY-THREE years after the start of construction, test running will begin this week in the 8.7km Hallandsås tunnel, Sweden's longest railway tunnel, marking the completion of infrastructure works on the SKr 10.5bn ($US 1.25bn) project.