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Train delays persist after mystery fire

Rail travel between southern Sweden and Stockholm continued to face some delays after a mystery fire cut off traffic at Flen an hour south of the capital.

Published: 9 May 2013 16:01 CEST

Train traffic was by Thursday up and running again after a fire put a stop to traffic on Wednesday night, affecting about 5,000 passengers.

“We have had one or two delays, but otherwise things look good,” spokeswoman Maria Hofberg at rail operators SJ told the TT news agency on Thursday.

Repairs were ongoing throughout the night as Sweden’s Transport Authority (Trafikverket) rushed to fix the damage done by the fire.

“They’ve been working hard all night, one track is now fully operational,” said spokeswoman Katarina Wolffram.

She said engineers had restored current to the tracks and repaired broken signals. The Transport Authority said the work had taken longer than expected, with the signalling system on the second track still not fixed at noon on Thursday.

One Gothenburg-Stockholm train had to be redirected through Eskilstuna.

As Thursday is a national holiday in Sweden, there were fewer trains than normal on the stretch, minimizing the impact of the incident, Wolffram at SJ said.

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POLITICS

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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