Trondheim – Storlien railway line

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Trondheim – Storlien
Line of the Trondheim – Storlien railway line
Container train near Trondheim
Route length: 102 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Operating points and routes
Legend
Route - straight ahead
 Sundsvall – Storlien railway from Östersund
Station, station
 747.864 Storlien 601 m
border
751.825
0
Norway / Sweden border
Stop, stop
 1 Teveldal
Station, station
 14th Kopperå 328.5 m
Stop, stop
 21st Meråker 219.6 m
   
 Funna
tunnel
 Gudåtunnal
   
 Stjørdalselva
Station, station
 30th Gudå 85.3 m
   
 35 Flornes 40 m
Stop, stop
 60 Hegra 18.2 m
   
 Nordland Railway from Bodø
Station, station
 70 Bright 3.2 m
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Muruvika (port)
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Muruvik (until 2011 station) 63.43 °  N , 10.83 °  E
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Gevingåsen tunnel (4,400 meters, since 2011) 63.43 °  N , 10.83 °  E
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 Homla
Station, station
79
23.14
Hommelvik (1881) 7.5 m
Station without passenger traffic
 Midtsanden 63.43 °  N , 10.73 °  O
Station, station
90
12.69
Vikhammar (1883-1985, from about 1998, 63.44 °  N , 10.62 °  O ) 4.7 m
Station without passenger traffic
 Ranheim
   
 Ab and paper mill
   
 Presthus
   
96
 Charlottenlund 24 m
Stop, stop
97
4.31
Red full
Station, station
98
3.49
Leangen (1892) 63.44 °  N , 10.46 °  O 34 m
   
 Stavnebanen to Marienborg
Stop, stop
99
 Ladalen
Stop, stop
99.5
1.77
Lilleby (1967 to 2006 Lademoen )
Stop, stop
100
0.94
Lademoen (station until 1997, Hp since 2007) 6 m
   
 Nidelva ( bascule bridge )
Station, station
 102 Trondheim S. 5.1 m
Route - straight ahead
 Dovre Railway to Oslo

The Trondheim – Storlien line is a 102-kilometer single-track railway line between Trondheim in Norway and Storlien in Sweden . Passenger train traffic is provided by the companies SJ Norge on the Norwegian side and Norrtåg on the Swedish side via Storlien to Östersund . Freight trains also run on the route.

designation

The railway line is historically known as Meråkerbanen . The name refers to the Meråker stop . Since January 6, 2008, the section (Trondheim) –Hell has been part of the Nordlandsbane according to a specification by Jernbaneverket , Meråkerbanen has since been only the approximately 70-kilometer (Hell) - (Storlien) route according to this definition.

history

The route was promoted by the Norwegian government - Norway was in union with Sweden - as the so-called Mellanriksbana at about the same time as the Norrländska tvärbanan through Sweden between Storlien and Sundsvall . These were routes connecting Norway and Sweden or Sweden and Finland .

The line was opened on October 17, 1881.

On November 19, 1940, a serious railway accident occurred near Hommelvik station , in which 22 people died and about 45 were injured beyond.

Connection of other railway lines

For the time being, the railway line was an island operation with no connection to the rest of the Norwegian or Swedish rail network. It was not until 1884 that the Dovre Railway , which had long existed south of Trondheim, was connected to the Meråker Railway by relocating its inner-city route. The Nordlandbahn , which branches off to the north in Hell , was only opened in sections from 1902.

traffic

After previously rather modest passenger transport offers on the route, the offer has been gradually expanded since the beginning of the 1990s, even if there is no continuous connection from Trondheim to Östersund.

In transport services between Heimdal , Trondheim and Östersund since September 22, 2002 two daily train pairs of Nabotåget , until June 2007 operated by Norges Statsbaner and the Swedish Public Transportation Authority in Jämtland County . These were partially financed by the EU Interreg IIIA program for cross-border cooperation.

On June 17, 2007 Veolia Transport took over the Mittlinje in Sweden and Nabotåget in Norway and merged them under the name Mittnabotåget . This company was dissolved in 2012 and the trains from Norrtåg and NSB were taken over. On the Trondheim– Hell section , there are hourly local NSB trains to Steinkjer (Trønderbanen) and long-distance NSB trains to Bodø .

The railway line is an important part of the Norwegian freight network towards Sweden. CargoNet operates the freight traffic .

Since November 2013, the continuous train traffic between the stations Storlien and Kopperå and thus the cross-border traffic between Norway and Sweden was interrupted. There was a risk of a landslide between Storlien station and the Norwegian border due to a lack of construction maintenance on a retaining wall. Passenger traffic was operated as a replacement rail service , freight traffic was diverted via southern Norway. The superstructure was temporarily fixed so that the section can be used again since January 16, 2015. The embankment is to be replaced by a new building, which will have been completed by December 2017.

Since June 7, 2020, SJ Norge AS has been operating passenger transport under the “NORD” brand.

  • Storlien (1882)

  • Light (1906)

  • Trondheim S.

Future prospects

In 2006, the Meråkerbane line was improved with investments of NOK 26.5 million and in 2007 with NOK 30 million to move freight traffic on the roads between Trøndelag and Jämtland to rail. The axle load has been increased from 20.5 tons to today's standard of 22.5 tons in Norway. At the same time, the speed of the freight trains could be increased from 50 to 80 km / h. Timber transports account for the largest share of freight traffic, especially for the paper manufacturer Norske Skog in Skogn . The 4.4 kilometer long Gevingåsen tunnel was opened in August 2011 and shortened the route length by 1627 meters.

The Meråkerbane is one of the four Norwegian railway lines recognized by the UNECE as the main international transport route.

It was planned, but not yet finally decided, to electrify the route with the start of construction in 2013 and completion in July 2015. The line is to be electrified by 2023.

Since December 4, 2016, the route between Hell and Gudå has been interrupted for a long time by a landslide, after it was taken out of service on the Swedish side due to earth moving.

Web links

Commons : Meråkerbanen  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Association of Central European Railway Administrations (ed.): Station directory of the European railways . (formerly Dr. KOCH's station directory). 52nd edition. Barthol & Co., Berlin-Wilmersdorf 1939.
  2. ^ Jernbanen i tall. Fact for jernbanestrekningene i Norge. Jernbaneverket, accessed November 25, 2013 (Norwegian).
  3. ^ Svein Sando: Norges jernbaner året 1881. Retrieved November 26, 2013 (Norwegian).
  4. ↑ jst: Meråkerbahn open again. In: Eisenbahn-Revue International 3/2015, p. 140.
  5. ↑ Njål Svingheim: SJ har tatt over sju togruter. Jernbane Directorate, June 8, 2020, accessed on August 21, 2020 .
  6. ↑ IMPORTANT INTERNATIONAL RAILWAY AND COMBINED TRANSPORT LINES. (PDF; 217 kB) UNECE , accessed on November 26, 2013 (English).
  7. ↑ El på Meråkersbanan clear fem år tidigare. Östersundsposten, November 6, 2011, accessed November 26, 2013 .
  8. ↑ Lover penger for å electrified Meråkerbanen inside fire år. tu.no, September 2, 2019, accessed on November 26, 2019 .
  9. ↑ red: Trondheim - Storien route . In: IBSE telegram 313 (12/2016), p. 4.