SWEDISH regional public transport authority Östgötatrafiken has awarded Alstom a €50m contract to supply eight additional X61 Coradia Nordic 15kV ac emus under a framework agreement signed in 2008.
SWEDEN's prime minister Mr Fredrik Reinfeldt, speaking in Linköping on August 29, says he plans to increase railway investment by 30% between 2014 and 2025 as part of a plan to invest more in infrastructure to encourage economic growth.
GREATER Stockholm Local Transport (SL) has awarded Strukton Rail two new contracts to maintain infrastructure on the 106km Stockholm metro network and the 65km narrow-gauge Roslagsbanan.
GREATER Stockholm Local Transport (SL) has awarded Alstom a €440m contract to supply an additional 46 Coradia Nordic X60 suburban emus, taking its total fleet of the trains to 129.
THE first commercial ETCS Level 3 system is now in operation on the Västerdal freight line in central Sweden, declared Mr Paul Frøsig of the International Union of Railways (UIC) at the UIC ERTMS World Conference in Stockholm last month.
SWEDISH equity company, Bure Equity, has agreed to provide financial backing for RushRail which has won a SKr 700m ($US 104m) contract from Trätåg, a logistics company, to transport
With heavy snowfall impacting the reliability of northern Europe's rail networks during recent frigid winters, two new snow clearance machines trialled this winter in Sweden and Britain aim to minimise future disruption, as Kevin Smith discovers.
Vossloh Cogifer has developed maintenance-friendly switch machines for use on standard sleepers or in box sleepers, thereby allowing automatic tamping of the trackbed. Their latest application is on two very different railways: a heavy-haul line in northern Sweden and on the recently-completed Ankara - Konya high-speed line in Turkey.
SWEDISH passenger operator SJ introduced the first of 20 four-car SJ3000 Bombardier X55 emus on Stockholm - Sundsvall services in early February, which has allowed X40 double-deck trains to be cascaded to other routes.
