SWEDISH infrastructure manager Trafikverket has selected Strukton Rail, Netherlands, in a SKr 207m ($US 32m) contract to fit out the City Line, a 6km new railway line in Stockholm city centre.
SWEDISH infrastructure manager Trafikverket has awarded Dutch rail construction and maintenance company Strukton Rail a contract worth around €80m to maintain 680km of track on the northern part of the Southern Main Line from Malmö to Katrineholm near Stockholm.
SWEDEN's Lussavaara-Kirunava AB (LKAB) inaugurated the latest phase of its iron-ore mining operation in Kiruna, northern Sweden today, which includes a 12km, standard-gauge underground automatic railway.
SWEDEN's infrastructure manager Trafikverket says it has received applications from 27 passenger operators and 13 freight companies to run trains on the national network starting from the new timetable on December 15.
SWEDISH operator Hector Rail has acquired 42 type ICK coaches from Netherlands Railways (NS) leasing subsidiary NS Financial Services.
SWEDISH infrastructure manager Trafikverket has commissioned Sweco, Sweden, to carry out environmental impact assessments and design studies for the construction of a new rail connection to the Port of Gothenburg.
THE president of the European Investment Bank Mr Werner Hoyer will meet representatives of Stockholm City Council in the Swedish capital on February 15 to sign a €400m loan agreement which will finance the modernisation of the metro Red Line.
Deep beneath the streets of Stockholm, a new railway is taking shape which will solve a decades-old railway capacity problem in the Swedish capital. As construction approaches the halfway stage Keith Barrow looks at the City Line project and how it will transform the region's rail network.
SWEDISH national passenger operator SJ announced on November 30 it has concluded a commercial agreement with Amadeus to distribute SJ products through Amadeus Global Rail Sales Platform.
SWEDEN's national passenger operator, SJ, will take delivery this weekend of the last of 20 class X55 four-car emus from Bombardier.
