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Swedish rail problems roll into second day

Problems continued for Sweden’s rail network a day after hundreds of passengers were evacuated from stranded trains in the east, with normal service not expected to resume until Wednesday afternoon.

Published: 1 December 2010 09:03 CET
Swedish rail problems roll into second day

A downed electrical line between Norrköping and Mjölby brought train service in Östergötland on Tuesday.

Hundreds of passengers were stranded for several hours on trains that had lost power and were left resting on the tracks.

One track was opened shortly after 9.30pm on Tuesday evening, while officials from Sweden’s National Transport Agency (Trafikverket) admitted that its initial estimate of having a second track open by 8am on Wednesday morning would not be met.

The agency now projects service will resume around 10am.

“We found some additional problems what we couldn’t see in the dark yesterday,” said Transport Agency spokesperson Tobbe Lundell to the TT news agency.

Three trains stopped in their tracks in Östergötland on Tuesday. According to national rail operator SJ, between 700 and 800 passengers were on board and needed to be evacuated.

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Copenhagen Metro lines reopen after two-week closure

Lines M3 and M4 of the Copenhagen Metro are back in service having reopened on Sunday, one day ahead of schedule.

Published: 26 February 2024 07:51 CET
Copenhagen Metro lines reopen after two-week closure

The two lines had been closed so that the Metro can run test operations before opening five new stations on the M4 line this summer.

The tests, which began on February 10th, are now done and the lines were running again as of Sunday evening, a day ahead of the original planned reopening on Monday February 26th.

“We are very pleased to be able to welcome our passengers on to our two lines M3 and M4,” head of operations with the Metro Søren Boysen said.

“The whole test procedure exceeded all expectations and went faster than expected and we can therefore get a head start on our reopening now,” he said.

Time set aside for potential repeat tests was not needed in the event, allowing the test closures to be completed ahead of time.

“Several of our many tests went better than expected and we have therefore not used all the time we needed for extra tests,” Boysen said.

The two lines serve around one million passengers every week, according to the Metro company.

READ ALSO: Copenhagen city government greenlights extension to Metro line

The new stops on the M4 line will be located south of central Copenhagen in the Valby and Sydhavn areas. The will have the names Haveholmen, Enghave Brygge, Sluseholmen, Mozarts Plads and København Syd (Copenhagen South).

The M3 and M4 lines, the newer sections of the Metro, opened in 2019 and 2020 respectively.

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