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Local Sweden
17-07-2025
- Local Sweden
No trains between Malmö and Stockholm for over ten hours
Signal failures have caused diversions and delays to train journeys between Malmö and Stockholm for over ten hours. Advertisement Trains have not been running between Vikingstad and Mjölby since 5pm on Wednesday, due to a signal failure which prevented any trains from running between Stockholm and Malmö or Norrköping and Motala. Swedish train company SJ said just after 7am on Thursday that some trains had been diverted but were running at reduced speed, leading to delays. The Snälltåget train from Stockholm to Malmö was supposed to arrive at Malmö C at 9.12pm on Wednesday, SVT reports, but finally arrived at 7.38 on Thursday. The Transport Administration expects that the issue will be fixed by 1pm on Thursday at the earliest. "We've tried to find other modes of transport for the cancelled departures, but we unfortunately aren't able to provide replacement transport in the quantity needed," train company SJ wrote in a statement on its website. Advertisement Signal failures outside Hallsberg are also causing issues, with delays and cancellations to and from Stockholm since Wednesday night. Staff were working on-site to fix the issue at around 7.30am on Thursday but the Transport Administration did not have a forecast for when trains would be running again. The following stations are among those affected: Linköping C, Mjölby, Motala, Kimstad, Vikingstad, Linghem, Norrköping, Nässjö, Älmhult, Hässleholm, Lund, Stockholm, Alvesta and Malmö C.
Local Sweden
17-04-2025
- Automotive
- Local Sweden
Spate of crashes in Sweden as busy Easter weekend gets under way
Easter is one of Sweden's busiest holidays of the year in terms of travel, and several accidents had already been reported by noon on Thursday. Advertisement The long weekend starts on Good Friday, but many people hit the road early, either taking Thursday off or leaving after lunch. On the E4 motorway northbound, a car and a truck collided at around 9.30am, wrote police on their website. Four people were travelling in the vehicles, but no one received life-threatening injuries. At Linköping, several cars were involved in an accident on the E4, said the Swedish Transport Administration. And another truck and car crashed into each other on the E18 at Västerås. The truck driver was fined for having caused the accident when he changed lanes. A car drove into a cable barrier at the E20 near Eskilstuna. No one was injured. The Transport Administration also warned that one lane of the E4 is closed due to road maintenance between Ekhagen and A6 outside Jönköping, which could cause queues. ESSENTIAL:
