At 2:30 p.m. on Thursday, traffic was back up an electrical fault in Laxå on New Year’s Daywhich was caused by icing on a catenary.
– We put the fast trains back in and run them as planned. However, we will turn around our regional trains. They drive to both ends of the stops and then turn around, says SJ’s press communicator Johannes Cleris.
The problem stretch between Hallsberg and Töreboda is served by buses instead.
The ice is still there and it has to be hacked manually. There are no machines that can help us here, says Katarina Wolffram at the Swedish Transport Administration.
At 2 p.m., there were also delays in train traffic between Stockholm and Malmö after unauthorized persons entered the track area between Hässleholm and Alvesta.
At 15:00 on Thursday, the Swedish Transport Administration had no forecast for when the traffic can run as usual on any of the routes.