Europe: New start for passenger trains in northern Sweden

By Oliver Cuenca, International Railway Journal; November 24, 2020 NORWEGIAN operator Vy has announced that it will restart regular passenger…

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Europe – Sleeper train revival: Passengers are waking up to the benefits

By Jemima Walker, CGTN.com; September 1, 2020 Sleeper trains are back in fashion as the European Union pushes rail transport…

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Europe back on track: Europe’s fading night trains win reprieve

From The Japan Times; August 3, 2020 Paris – It was one of the quintessential European travel experiences. With passengers…

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Europe, Sweden: Freight by passenger train pilot project funded

From Railway Gazette International; July 18, 2020 SWEDEN: Innovation agency Vinnova is to fund a project which aims to use…

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Europe: Night-Train Vision

By Keith Fender, International Railway Journal, Railway Age Magazine; February 7, 2020 If International Railway Journal had suggested in 2016 that school…

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Norwegian State Railways rebrands as Vy

From Global Railway Review; April 30, 2019 The NSB Group was officially renamed the Vy Group on 24 April 2019…

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Got time? You can avoid ‘flygskam’ (Swedish for flight shame)

By John Ryan, KUOW-FM; April 28, 2019 In Sweden, they have a word for the guilty feeling of polluting by…

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Why Sweden Wants to Revive Europe’s Night Trains

By Feargus O’Sullivan, CityLab; April 2, 2019 In the quest to reduce the massive carbon footprint from global transportation, Sweden…

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Sweden’s national passenger operator SJ achieves passenger traffic record in 2018

By David Briginshaw, International Railway Journal; February 21, 2019 SWEDEN’s national passenger operator SJ carried a record 31.8 million passengers…

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Heatwave could cause further rail closures in Sweden

From The Local Sweden; July 30, 2018 More train lines could close temporarily due to the intense heatwave in Sweden,…

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SagaRail launches its first passenger services in Sweden

By Keith Barrow, International Railway Journal; February 23, 2018 SWEDISH open-access passenger operator SagaRail launched its inaugural commercial services on…

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7 of the Most Stunning Subway Stations in the World

By Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics; October 16, 2017 Beauty and subways don’t always go hand-in-hand, especially for the millions of…

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