US-based passenger rail search and booking technologies provider SilverRail Technologies has acquired the Swedish rail technology firm Linkon. As part of the new development, SilverRail acquires 75% ...

French engineering and consulting group Systra has completed the acquisition of Dalco Elteknik, a Sweden-based engineering firm that specialises in railway systems and signalling. The acquisition ...

THE primary object of electrifying the State railways in Sweden was to make them independent of foreign fuel. In 1920, when the project was first considered, the probable future price of locomotive ...

HELSINKI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The cooperation of the Finnish rail fleet maintenance company VR FleetCare with the Swedish railway operator SJ AB is evolving. The two companies have signed an agreement to ...

Construction of the main railway lines in Sweden included a large-scale garden project. Parks and kitchen gardens were built around the new stations, and long hedges were planted along the railways. A ...

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden's state-owned railway operator SJ said on Monday it would halt its passenger services to and from Denmark because it was unable to carry out the identity checks demanded ...

Simon Calder, also known as The Man Who Pays His Way, has been writing about travel for The Independent since 1994. In his weekly opinion column, he explores a key travel issue – and what it means for ...

public transport may be valued by millions, but there is no denying the frustrations for both customers and staff when delays hit a service. The major issue ends up being the lack of information to ...

The Swedish railway network is of a relatively late date. The parliamentary session of 1853/54 established the principle that the government was to assume responsibility for network of main lines.