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After a long delay, Roslagsbanan's new trains have finally entered service. The 65 km long narrow gauge railway connects Stockholm to its northeastern suburbs and currently uses older trains built in the 1990s. The original plan was for the new trains to make their debut in 2021 but it has been...

Since there are some posters here with a lot of knowledge about Portugal, does anyone know the state of the Évora to Elvas high speed line? If I'm not mistaken it is supposed to open next year? Is that still the case? I've tried to find information about it, but since I don't speak Portugese...

Scandinavia has been hit by bad weather in the last days, heavy rains and very windy. As a result, a SJ high speed train derailed earlier today outside Hudiksvall. https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/gavleborg/styrkeledaren-om-ursparade-taget-kunde-ha-gatt-mycket-varre--tqyjrl (Hopefully you can...

The Swedish rail news site jarnvagar.nu published an interesting article recently about SJ's plans for the west coast. https://jarnvagar.nu/fler-snabbtag-pa-vastkustbanan/ Currently there are a couple of large construction projects happening on the West coast line. In the south, the line is...

Norske tog, the state owned Norwegian train leasing company will announce their new long distance trains tomorrow. So far not much is known, but in the tender they specified that they wanted the same trains to be able to be used as both day trains and night trains...

Trafikverket has issued a tender for new night trains to be used on the Stockholm-Luleå/Narvik routes. https://ted.europa.eu/udl?uri=TED:NOTICE:12896-2023:TEXT:EN:HTML&tabId=0

This summer the Swedish Railway Museum and LKAB will have an event in Kiruna as the northern part of Malmbanan celebrates 120 years and it is the last year with Kiruna's old town centre. Two former ore trains locos, one R and one Dm3, will return to Kiruna to do what they were built for. Pull...

SJ has, once again, just announced an order for at least 25 new high speed trains, capable of 250 km/h. Press release: https://nyhetsrum.sj.se/pressreleases/sj-investerar-i-framtidens-snabbtaag-3152045 (My translation)

Norske tog has placed an order with Alstom for 30 new commuter trains with an option for 170 more. https://www.norsketog.no/en/news/2021/norske-tog-buys-30-local-trains-from-alstom The trains will be 6 car Coradia Nordics, i.e. similar to the X60/61/62 used in Sweden as commuter trains and...

Earlier today the Swedish parliament elected Magdalena Andersson new prime minister, and less than 8 hours later she resigned after the Greens announced that they would not be part of her government. Finding a stable majority in the parliament has not been easy since the last election and today...

The day before yesterday a loaded ore train derailed between between Gällivare and Kiruna, so Malmbanan is now closed between the cities until the line can be repaired. https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/norrbotten/malmtag-med-38-vagnar-sparade-ur-utanfor-gallivare 38 of the 68 ore cars in the...

SJ has just announced an order for at least 25 new regional trains from CAF. They will be used between Uppsala and Stockholm, Linköping-Ljusdal, the local Stockholm-Göteborg trains north of Mälaren and Göteborg-Kalmar. Press release (in Swedish)...

Does anyone know if there are any updates planned or discussed to the Enterprise? Two cities that big and that close to each other should have a pretty big demand for travel.

It will be Alstom that delivers DSB's new EMUs that wil be based on the Coradia Stream platform. And at a first glance they look very similar to the Dutch ICNG. They will be 25 kV only, so only used for domestic routes, with a top speed of 200 km/h and seat 300 passengers each. The initial...

Today was the first day with electric trains all the way from Zürich to Munich. But it didn't go according to plan, the first train had only made it as far as Hergatz where it was sent to an unelectrified track. Short newsclip about the incident: (In German)

DSB's first EB's arrived in Denmark earlier today, here is a video of them shot in Padborg where they were handed over to Hector rail for the last bit of the journey.

The first of DSB's new locos have been spotted in Munich. It can be seen here: https://www.instagram.com/p/CEOMcMiHhBj/

Night trains are coming back. And according to a tweet from ÖBB, they plan to start operating Vienna-Paris in 2024. (From 2024 we plan a direct Nightjet between Vienna and Paris.)

The EA have been DSB's only electric passenger locomotive, but now they only have 4 left and they will soon be replaced by EBs (Vectron) when they arrive later this year. Danish train driver and youtuber Kenny has made a nice film about the locos including cab views and interior. In Danish, but...

This is the last summer that the railway south of Stockholm C is closed as the last bridge will be replaced this summer. Trafikverket has a pretty good youtube channel and sometimes they publish a film about large construction projects in English as well, and the film about the last bridge has...