US-based passenger rail search and booking technologies provider SilverRail Technologies has acquired the Swedish rail technology firm Linkon. As part of the new development, SilverRail acquires 75% ...

Bombardier’s Rail Control approved for upcoming Swedish rail modernisation programme. Credit: © Bombardier. Swedish transport authorities have approved Bombardier ...

THE primary object of electrifying the State railways in Sweden was to make them independent of foreign fuel. In 1920, when the project was first considered, the probable future price of locomotive ...

HELSINKI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The cooperation of the Finnish rail fleet maintenance company VR FleetCare with the Swedish railway operator SJ AB is evolving. The two companies have signed an agreement to ...

Construction of the main railway lines in Sweden included a large-scale garden project. Parks and kitchen gardens were built around the new stations, and long hedges were planted along the railways. A ...

Simon Calder, also known as The Man Who Pays His Way, has been writing about travel for The Independent since 1994. In his weekly opinion column, he explores a key travel issue – and what it means for ...

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden's state-owned railway operator SJ said on Monday it would halt its passenger services to and from Denmark because it was unable to carry out the identity checks demanded ...

The Swedish railway network is of a relatively late date. The parliamentary session of 1853/54 established the principle that the government was to assume responsibility for network of main lines.