THE president of the European Investment Bank Mr Werner Hoyer will meet representatives of Stockholm City Council in the Swedish capital on February 15 to sign a €400m loan agreement which will finance the modernisation of the metro Red Line.
Deep beneath the streets of Stockholm, a new railway is taking shape which will solve a decades-old railway capacity problem in the Swedish capital. As construction approaches the halfway stage Keith Barrow looks at the City Line project and how it will transform the region's rail network.
SWEDISH national passenger operator SJ announced on November 30 it has concluded a commercial agreement with Amadeus to distribute SJ products through Amadeus Global Rail Sales Platform.
SWEDEN's national passenger operator, SJ, will take delivery this weekend of the last of 20 class X55 four-car emus from Bombardier.
SWEDISH regional public transport authority Östgötatrafiken has awarded Alstom a €50m contract to supply eight additional X61 Coradia Nordic 15kV ac emus under a framework agreement signed in 2008.
SWEDEN's prime minister Mr Fredrik Reinfeldt, speaking in Linköping on August 29, says he plans to increase railway investment by 30% between 2014 and 2025 as part of a plan to invest more in infrastructure to encourage economic growth.
GREATER Stockholm Local Transport (SL) has awarded Strukton Rail two new contracts to maintain infrastructure on the 106km Stockholm metro network and the 65km narrow-gauge Roslagsbanan.
GREATER Stockholm Local Transport (SL) has awarded Alstom a €440m contract to supply an additional 46 Coradia Nordic X60 suburban emus, taking its total fleet of the trains to 129.
THE first commercial ETCS Level 3 system is now in operation on the Västerdal freight line in central Sweden, declared Mr Paul Frøsig of the International Union of Railways (UIC) at the UIC ERTMS World Conference in Stockholm last month.
SWEDISH equity company, Bure Equity, has agreed to provide financial backing for RushRail which has won a SKr 700m ($US 104m) contract from Trätåg, a logistics company, to transport