Classic route
SJ Snabbtåg
Stockholm → Sundsvall · Sweden
SJ Snabbtåg in pictures
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- Distance
- 400 km
- Fastest time
- 3 h 15 min
- Average speed
- 123 km/h
- Top speed
- 200 km/h
- Operator
- SJ
- Train
- X55 · SJ 3000
- Countries
- Sweden
- In service since
- 1927
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Fast SJ trains climb the East Coast Line along the Gulf of Bothnia’s shore to the old timber city of Sundsvall.
How this line was checked
- The 394 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 71586 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within 31 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 99.4% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 10 m); the longest stretch away from it is 2.5 km
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits 0.4 km from the shape of X2 562
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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