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The railway building continued in 1891 when the construction of Malmbanan, an iron ore railway between Luleå and Narvik in Norway, was begun. It was finished in 1902. [1]In 1896 the state bought all railways on the west coast and began constructing Bohusbanan (the Bohuslän railway, Bohus Line) between Gothenburg and Strömstad.
Rail transport in Sweden uses a network of 10,912 kilometres (6,780 mi), the 24th largest in the world. [3] Construction of the first railway line in Sweden began in 1855. . The major operator of passenger trains has traditionally been the state-owned SJ, though today around 70% of all rail traffic consists of subsidised local and regional trains for which the regional public transport ...
Stockholm Metro (Stockholms tunnelbana) is the only metro system in Sweden.. Cities with light rail (trams); Gothenburg: Gothenburg tram – consisting of 190 km on a total track length of 161 km
The first trial run of the Hoved Line, between Christiania (now Oslo) and Strømmen, 1853. Credit: Illustrert Nyhedsblad (1853). The first public railway in Norway was the Norsk Hoved-jernbane (also known as the Trunk Line).
In September 2013 the government reached a deal with the Danish People's Party and the Red-Green Alliance (Denmark) to use additional oil taxes to create a train fund. This train fund would be used to electrify all of the main line trains by 2025, and increase train speeds to 250 kilometres per hour (160 mph) for InterCity trains. This would ...
The history of Scandinavia is the history of the geographical region of Scandinavia and its peoples. The region is located in Northern Europe , and consists of Denmark , Norway and Sweden . Finland and Iceland are at times, especially in English-speaking contexts, considered part of Scandinavia.
The history of rail transport in Denmark began in 1847 with the opening of a railway line between Copenhagen and Roskilde. The Kiel-Altona line in Holstein was completed three years earlier, but the region was later lost to the German Confederation in the Second War of Schleswig. The Danish national railway operator, DSB, was established in 1885.
Switzerland has a long history of train ferry usage beginning in the 1860s. [19] Between 1869 and 1976, train ferries also existed on Lake Constance . The Lake Constance train ferries linked lakeside railway stations in Austria ( Bregenz ), Germany ( Friedrichshafen Hafen , Konstanz , Lindau-Insel ) and Switzerland ( Romanshorn ).