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Train routes operated by SJ
10 routes · classic 8 · night train 2
SJ runs 10 of the routes in the World Train Map atlas, 4,378 km of railway across 3 countries. The longest is the EuroNight at 1,150 km; the fastest is the EuroNight, running up to 200 km/h; the oldest line it runs over here opened in 1864. 1 of its routes crosses an international border.
The company itself dates to 2001, filed on Wikidata as a railway undertaking. What this page says about the company comes from SJ's own Wikidata item, checked against the countries its routes here actually cross before any of it is used; everything about the railway is counted from this atlas. Official site ↗ · Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata Q8301325 ↗
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- 10
- Total length
- 4,378 km
- Countries
- Sweden, Denmark, Germany
- Fastest
- EuroNight · 200 km/h
- Longest
- EuroNight · 1,150 km
- Oldest line here
- 1864
- Company founded
- 2001
- Type
- railway undertaking
Classic (8)
- SJ Snabbtåg
SJ’s tilting X2000 links Stockholm with Malmö and the Øresund gateway at up to 200 km/h. Sweden’s flagship fast run down the Southern Main Line.
Wikipedia ↗ - SJ X2000
Sweden’s tilting flagship since 1990, sprinting the Western Main Line between the country’s two biggest cities.
Wikipedia ↗ - SJ Snabbtåg
Fast SJ trains climb the East Coast Line along the Gulf of Bothnia’s shore to the old timber city of Sundsvall.
Wikipedia ↗ - Kust till kust-banan
Coast to coast across Småland: Borås, the glass country around Växjö, and Kalmar castle on the Baltic at the far end.
Wikipedia ↗ - Dalabanan
To Dalarna, Sweden’s folklore heart: Lake Siljan, Leksand’s midsummer poles and the Vasaloppet town of Mora, where the Inlandsbanan begins.
Wikipedia ↗ - Stångådalsbanan
Four separate railways stitched into one 235 kilometre run across Småland; the last section opened in 1902, and only since 1996 has the trip been possible without changing trains.
Wikipedia (SV) ↗ - Skövde–Nässjö railway
The Jönköpingsbanan was the Southern main line’s own way north, finished on 1 December 1864; ten years later a shorter line through Katrineholm took its traffic away.
Wikipedia ↗ - Tjustbanan
Västervik to Åtvidaberg was laid in 1879 as an 891 mm narrow gauge line; the link to Bjärka-Säby in 1906 joined it to Linköping, and the whole of it was widened to standard gauge in 1964.
Wikipedia ↗
Night train (2)
- EuroNight
Scandinavia’s night-train revival: across the Öresund while you sleep, into Germany by breakfast.
Wikipedia ↗ - SJ Nattåg
SJ’s sleeper rolls out of Stockholm at night and wakes among the snow-clad fells of Jämtland at the Åre ski resort.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons — each route page credits the author & licence
How many train routes does SJ run?
10 of the routes in this atlas are SJ services, covering 4,378 km across 3 countries (Sweden, Denmark, Germany). That is what this atlas draws, not the operator's whole network — a national railway runs thousands of local services no map of notable journeys would list.
What is the fastest SJ train?
The EuroNight, Stockholm to Hamburg, at up to 200 km/h. Its fastest scheduled run takes ≈ 13 h over 1,150 km.
Does SJ run night trains?
Yes — 2 sleeper services in this atlas: EuroNight (Stockholm – Hamburg), SJ Nattåg (Stockholm – Åre).
When was SJ founded?
Wikidata records the company's inception as 2001, and files it as a railway undertaking. The oldest railway it runs over in this atlas opened in 1864 — the line and the company are rarely the same age, and this page dates both.
Countries SJ runs in
- 🇩🇪 Train routes in Germany 138 routes
- 🇸🇪 Train routes in Sweden 29 routes
- 🇩🇰 Train routes in Denmark 25 routes
Other operators in Sweden
- Skånetrafiken 3 routes
- Norrtåg 2 routes