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Train routes in Sweden
29 routes · classic 21 · night train 4 · scenic 3 · heritage 1
29 routes cross Sweden in the World Train Map atlas. The longest is the Arctic Circle Train at 1,470 km; the fastest is the SJ X2000, running up to 200 km/h; the oldest line dates to 1857. Every route links to its facts, photo and story, and to the interactive world map.
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Classic (21)
- SJ X2000
Sweden’s tilting flagship since 1990, sprinting the Western Main Line between the country’s two biggest cities.
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 ↗ - 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 Snabbtåg
Fast SJ trains climb the East Coast Line along the Gulf of Bothnia’s shore to the old timber city of Sundsvall.
Wikipedia ↗ - Norrtåg
A rare passenger run through Norrland’s forests joining two northern university cities near the head of the Gulf of Bothnia.
Wikipedia ↗ - Öresundståg
Rolls off Sweden’s West Coast Line and over the 8 km Øresund Bridge, plunging into the Drogden tunnel to reach Copenhagen.
Wikipedia ↗ - Oslo–Göteborg
The busiest cross-border run in Scandinavia: down Norway’s Østfold Line to the frontier at Kornsjø, then through Dalsland’s forests and lakes to Sweden’s second city; a new fast line is planned to halve the time.
- Oslo–Stockholm
Two Scandinavian capitals across the forests and lakes of Värmland, via Kongsvinger and Karlstad on Lake Vänern: a near-five-hour run that new open-access operators are racing to cut.
- Meråkerbanen
Up the Stjørdal valley from the Trondheim fjord to the Swedish border at Storlien: freshly electrified in 2024, the northern rail gateway between Norway and Sweden toward Östersund.
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) ↗ - Kinnekullebanan
Four small railways stitched round the flat-topped hill of Kinnekulle by Lidköping and Mariestad, the last piece laid in 1910 and the whole of it regauged to standard by 1953.
Wikipedia ↗ - Mälaren Line
Follows the northern shore of Lake Mälaren from Stockholm through Västerås to Örebro — double track most of the way and rebuilt for high-speed running in 2005.
Wikipedia ↗ - Haparanda Line
Sweden's only railway to the Finnish border, and freight-only from 1992 until passengers came back in 2021.
Wikipedia ↗ - Blekinge Coast Line
The coast line through Skåne and Blekinge, opened in 1898 and now the Öresundståg run east to the naval city of Karlskrona.
Wikipedia (SV) ↗ - Skåne Line
Skånebanan links eastern and western Skåne by way of Hässleholm — an 1865 railway that only got its collective name from Banverket in 1990.
Wikipedia ↗ - Ystad Line
Malmö to the ferry town of Ystad across southern Scania, where the Österlen Line carries on to Simrishamn.
Wikipedia ↗ - Österlen Line
Rebuilt from two closed Skåne railways and reopened in 2003, electrified and single track along the Österlen coast to Simrishamn.
Wikipedia ↗ - 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 ↗ - Markarydsbanan
The Southern main line nearly came this way in the 1850s and went east instead; two small companies built it anyway, Hässleholm to Vittsjö in 1890 and on to Markaryd in 1892.
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.
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Night train (4)
- EuroNight
Scandinavia’s night-train revival: across the Öresund while you sleep, into Germany by breakfast.
Wikipedia ↗ - Arctic Circle Train
Crosses the Arctic Circle bound for the aurora: the Iron Ore Line’s fjord finale into Narvik is pure drama.
- 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.
- Snälltåget
A private summer sleeper down through Sweden, over the Öresund bridge past Copenhagen and across Denmark to Berlin, outlasting the state night trains.
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Scenic (3)
- Inlandsbanan
Two summer days up Sweden’s green spine: moose at the window and a trackside stop at the Arctic Circle, where everyone piles out for photographs.
Wikipedia ↗ - Roslagsbanan
Sweden’s last commercial narrow-gauge railway (891 mm), still running through Stockholm’s leafy northern suburbs out to rural Kårsta.
Wikipedia ↗ - Fryksdal Line
Single track, no wires, up the Fryken lakes of Värmland from Kil to Torsby — railcars for people, timber and pulpwood for the mills.
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Heritage (1)
- Lennakatten
Steam from the edge of a university city: the 891 mm Lennakatten rolls 33 km through Uppland forests and lakeside summer halts to the engine sheds at Faringe.
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Photos via Wikimedia Commons — each route page credits the author & licence
What is the fastest train in Sweden?
The SJ X2000, running Stockholm to Gothenburg at up to 200 km/h. It is one of 29 routes in Sweden in this atlas.
Are there night trains in Sweden?
Yes — 4 sleeper services in this atlas serve Sweden: EuroNight (Stockholm – Hamburg), Arctic Circle Train (Stockholm – Narvik), SJ Nattåg (Stockholm – Åre), Snälltåget (Stockholm – Berlin).
Can you cross the border by train from Sweden?
Yes — 7 of its 29 routes continue into another country: EuroNight (Stockholm – Hamburg), Arctic Circle Train (Stockholm – Narvik), Öresundståg (Gothenburg – Copenhagen), Snälltåget (Stockholm – Berlin), among others.
Which is the most scenic railway in Sweden?
Sweden has 3 scenic or mountain lines in this atlas. The longest is the Inlandsbanan, 1,070 km.
Cross-border lines continue into
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