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Train disruption to continue until Friday

Delays in train services continue to affect travellers on key routes across Sweden, with disruption expected to last until Friday.

Published: 26 July 2011 08:58 CEST

Heavy rainfall over last weekend prompted long delays in train services.

Journeys from Stockholm to Malmö were extended by more than three hours after a Trafikverket (the Swedish Transport Administration) building was flooded in Norrköping.

Trains remain affected around Norrköping with some cancellations to services from the city to Linköping, according to a Transport Administration statement.

Speaker systems are out of service in Norrköping, Nyköping, Hälleforsnäs, Kimstad, Linghem, Vagnhärad, Läggestad, Vikingstad, Kolmården and Åtvidaberg, while electronic signs on platforms are back in service.

Further disruptions have been reported between Varberg and Borås and buses are plying the routes around Tanum in western Sweden after a derailment at the weekend.

Services have been completely closed since Saturday with rainfall flooding the tracks. The water was pumped away on Monday and trains are expected to resume running as normal on Tuesday.

“Trains will begin running at low speed, so we will notice if the embankment has been damaged,” Anna Hansson at the agency told the Svenska Dagbladet daily.

Stockholm-Malmö services returned to normal already on Monday, but full service is not expected to be resumed until Friday, according to the agency.

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Red-green coalition takes power in Gothenburg

The Social Democrats, Green Party and Left Party have managed to oust the right-wing Moderates from power in Gothenburg, despite failing to strike a coalition deal with the Centre Party.

Published: 28 October 2022 15:34 CEST
Red-green coalition takes power in Gothenburg

The Social Democrats, Left Party and Green Party will now take over the municipality with Jonas Attenius, group leader for the Social Democrats in the city, becoming the new mayor.

“We three parties are ready to together take responsibility for leading Gothenburg,” Attenius wrote to TT. “I am looking forward immensely to leading Gothenburg in the coming years.” 

The three parties will lead a minority government, with 40 out of 81 mandates, meaning it will dependent on mandates from the Centre Party to pass proposals. 

The three parties had hoped to bring the Centre Party into the coalition, but talks fell apart on Monday,  October 24th. 

“We our going into opposition, but our goal is to be an independent, liberal force, which can negotiate both to the left and to the right,” the party’s group leader in Gothenburg, Emmyly Bönfors told the Göteborgs-Posten newspaper. 

The end of talks in Gothenburg leave the Social Democrats leading coalition governments in all three of Sweden’s major cities, with Karin Wanngård appointed Mayor of Stockholm on October 17th. 

The Social Democrats had unbroken control in Malmö since 1994, after they regained power from the Moderates, who controlled the city from 1991-1994, and also from 1985-1988. 

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