Arctic Rail Express
The Arctic Rail Express is a freight train operated by the Swedish railway company Green Cargo , which runs once a day from Oslo in Norway in transit through Sweden to Narvik and back.
history
The Arctic Rail Express is one of the freight trains in Europe that run according to a fixed timetable as the one with the longest route without commercial stops. The Swedish section of the route is used in transit and only the freight yards of Oslo-Alnabru and Narvik in Norway are served.
The train takes around 27 hours and only stops to change staff. Its establishment was decided in 1991 to relieve the European route 6 and to guarantee the northern Norwegian industry (especially fish processing ) a reliable and fast connection to the south. Previously, freight traffic between Oslo and northern Norway was handled by rail on the southern section to Trondheim or Bodø, and north of it by cargo ship. In 2013 the weekly container ship connection (with M / S Tege) between Bodø and Alta (with a stopover) was discontinued.
The first train known as the Arctic Rail Express ran in 1992.
Compilation
The train is mostly pulled by Swedish locomotives of the Rc series ; pocket wagons and four-axle container wagons are usually used as wagons . Occasionally a few car transport wagons or other ordinary freight wagons are carried at the beginning or end of the train . Often, containers or wagons are provided by Central European companies and railway companies that are transported in international traffic from Germany via Denmark and southern Sweden to the far north. The wagons are placed on the train in Oslo-Alnabru, the containers are usually reloaded.
Web links
- Jørgen Ole Bærenholdt, Brynhild Granås: Mobility and Place: enacting Northern European peripheries , online at Google Books
Individual evidence
- ↑ Vårt intermodale nettverk i Scandinavia and Europe - CargoNet network map, access = 2013-04-27. Archived from the original on October 19, 2013 ; accessed on August 10, 2015 .
- ↑ Futurum 2006: ARE page 7. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on August 10, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Page 7 (english)
- ↑ years date 1991 can be found in the "Goal-oriented cooperation" (English)
- ↑ Ofotbanen AS, page 6 (English) ( Memento from February 21, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
