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    Bergen cut-off by rail following freight train derailment at Arna

    Banenor has photos: https://www.banenor.no/nyheter-og-aktuelt/nyheter/2024/oppryddingsarbeidet-pa-arna-stasjon-vil-ta-tid/
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    Oslo - Trondheim Line Flood Damage

    Looking at the webcam of the bridge, it's starting to look like a railway again.
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    Interrail first class on Swedish VY Norrtag sleepers

    To be fair, SJ's customer service might not know all the details about Vy's rules.
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    Interrail first class on Swedish VY Norrtag sleepers

    Kenny has a great channel. He doesn't post new videos that often, but they are usually well made and a good source of news about what's happening in Denmark. Most of the videos have subtitles as well. Scottish Youtuber Steve Marsh was also on a trip north to Kiruna recently but made a stop in...
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    Oslo - Trondheim Line Flood Damage

    Agree, and it is a bit of a "hidden gem" so there are not as many tourists as on the route to Bergen and Flåmsbana.
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    Connection time at Amsterdam Centraal arriving on Eurostar

    Is there any reason for the detour via the Netherlands? I would take the Eurostar to Brussels and change to a train to Germany there.
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    [SE] Vy (NSB) abandons night trains in Sweden from Dec-24

    I'm also not that sympathetic to Vy, their bid was really low and I'm not at all surprised that it's hard for them to not make a loss on running the trains.
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    European Rail Passes

    In Sweden, SJ has had a summer card the last few years, valid for all their trains in Sweden as well as trains to Oslo and Copenhagen. Last year it was available for 10, 20 or 30 days. Then there are a number of different regional passes. E.g. Norrtåg has had a summer card that gives you 14...
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    Question: Bueker railway maps

    Thank you! There are some things missing from the Scandinavian map, but they seem to have been updated last year.
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    Question: Bueker railway maps

    I don't, but www.openrailwaymap.org is a good alternative.
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    [SE] Ethiopian Embassy in Sweden apologies for minibus driven onto train tracks

    While media has mentioned that it happened on train track, it was a tram track to be precise. And the person did manage to drive quite far on the tracks before coming to a stop.
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    Stockholm - Narvik engineering works

    Not only the people in Narvik are frustrated, Riksgränsen and Abisko will also most likely see a drop in tourists due to lack of passenger trains. But I don't think it has anything to do with ore trains having higher priority.
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    Stockholm - Narvik engineering works

    Hopefully the tickets will be available within a week or so. 1708553372 The line opened for freight trains. But is not open for passenger trains yet and no date is set for it. here is a video of the test train, made up of one of LKAB's large diesel shunters and a few ore cars, on the newly...
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    Stockholm - Narvik engineering works

    According to SJ they are still waiting for the schedules in Germany to be set, but hope to be able to release the tickets for April, May in June some time in February.

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