« Fast train Stockholm-Oslo needs to go from snack to workshop »

Five and a half hours. So long, the fastest train journeys between Stockholm and Oslo take.

Admittedly one hour faster than by car, but around five times slower than by flight.

In the latest electoral movement, the prospective Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (M) made it clear that he wants to see fast trains between the Swedish and Norwegian capital and said he « Is Move that we will have the shovel on the slopes during the coming term » in one of the sub -projects, double track between Karlstad and Kil.

That all stages That needs to be equipped or getting a brand new rail (Arvika-Oslo and Kristinehamn-Örebro) no one believes is contained in it national plan for infrastructure as the government will decide on next spring.

Instead, the regional and municipal-owned pressure company Oslo-SNLM 2.55 and the business community hope that the government Opens for what is called OPSPublic-Private Cooperation, where private capital can also be raised.

Building railways across national borders is legally complicated and in the autumn of 2022 the Swedish Transport Administration and their Norwegian equivalent of the Jernbane Directorate published the so -called the opportunity study For the partial section of Oslo-Avika.

It pointed out Large travel time gains – but also high costs, and wrote that « it is absolutely crucial » that the authorities in both countries « cooperate towards a common goal ».

Since then, the emergency and NATO issue has come in as a new factor and in December gave The Government The Swedish Transport Administration to « enter into a consensus agreement » (…) with the rest of the Nordic countries « for conditions at heightened preparedness and war -time situations. »

Already eleven years ago Exercised the Environment Party In the Riksdag on an investment that would lower travel time by train to just under three hours, which would have « the potential to knock out air traffic completely ».

MP’s latest grip is a so-called committee initiative where the party hopes to gather a majority in the Riksdag to announce to the government the need for « faster railway line » Stockholm-Oslo. A similar proposal has been laid in Norway last week in the Storting.

This also includes a call for « a formalized cooperation agreement » between the countries and a « Scandinavian railway council » which also includes Denmark.

MP also means That the night trains Stockholm-Hamburg/Berlin is threatened after next year and also believes that tax money should be folded to night train from Oslo which via Gothenburg is linked to the trains from Stockholm in Malmö.

Of the needs of Sweden-Norway, the MP-language tube Daniel Helldén believes that the Stockholm-Oslo issue-with all cities on the route-is most important to address.

– But the Norwegians we talk to also lift the night trains against Malmö, it would have major synergies.

Can’t the market manage it yourself? Does tax money have to in?

– It will be needed to control money there, unfortunately, to start night traffic.

Governments and Minister of Infrastructure Andreas Carlson (KD) often talk about the security situation requireing better relations with Norway. Don’t you look up an open door?

– He has said a lot but I can’t see something happening, he needs to go from snack to workshop.

« That’s not true, » writes Infrastructure Minister Andreas Carlson in a written comment about the MP play.

Carlson thinks that The Swedish and Norwegian governments, due to the security situation, « work closer than in a very long time » with infrastructure issues where needs and preparedness « can be considered greater than ever before ».

In the answer, Andreas Carlson does not address what MP proposes about the Stockholm-Oslo question but mentions the Malmbanan, Luleå-Narvik.

« We are also working together with the Nordic countries at EU level in raising the need for investment in Nordic infrastructure. It is not only a matter for Sweden and the Nordic countries, but also for the EU and NATO, » writes Andreas Carlson.