Train routes in Sweden

Stockholm → Mora · 310 km · ≈ 3 h 40 min

SJ · SJ InterCity

To Dalarna, Sweden’s folklore heart: Lake Siljan, Leksand’s midsummer poles and the Vasaloppet town of Mora, where the Inlandsbanan begins.

Linköping → Kalmar · 235 km · ≈ 3 h 18 min

SJ · Krösatågen

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.

Håkantorp → Gårdsjö · 122 km · ≈ 2 h 01 min

Västtrafik · Kinnekulletaget

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.

Örebro → Stockholm · 204 km · ≈ 2 h 08 min

Mälartåg · Mälartåg

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.

Haparanda → Boden · 158 km · ≈ 1 h 31 min

Norrtåg · Norrtåg

Sweden's only railway to the Finnish border, and freight-only from 1992 until passengers came back in 2021.

Kristianstad → Karlskrona · 128 km · ≈ 1 h 50 min

Öresundståg · Öresundståg

The coast line through Skåne and Blekinge, opened in 1898 and now the Öresundståg run east to the naval city of Karlskrona.

Kristianstad → Helsingborg · 107 km · ≈ 1 h 38 min

Skånetrafiken · Skånetrafiken regional

Skånebanan links eastern and western Skåne by way of Hässleholm: an 1865 railway that only got its collective name from Banverket in 1990.

Ystad → Malmö · 69 km · ≈ 56 min

Skånetrafiken · Pågatåg

Malmö to the ferry town of Ystad across southern Scania, where the Österlen Line carries on to Simrishamn.

Simrishamn → Ystad · 46 km · ≈ 43 min

Skånetrafiken · Pågatåg

Rebuilt from two closed Skåne railways and reopened in 2003, electrified and single track along the Österlen coast to Simrishamn.

Skövde → Nässjö · 142 km · 1 h 44 min

SJ · R 7209

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.

Hässleholm → Markaryd · 37 km · 26 min

Arriva · 1902

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.

Linköping → Västervik · 115 km · 1 h 38 min

SJ · Krösatågen

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.