Long delays after tågstoppet – Göteborgs-Posten

After complete stop on the Western Main Line, drawn train with huge delays for the rest of Sunday.

But on Monday morning, everything will be running smoothly again, promises Transport Administration .

It was completely stopped in train passing Skövde in three and a half hours, between 14 o’clock and 17:30, on Sunday afternoon. The cause was an overhead tumbled down.

The shutdown affected virtually all traffic between Stockholm and Gothenburg, via Skövde and Hallsberg on Western Main Line.

Even trains between Falköping and Nässjö suffered delays.

– We had a couple of trains from Stockholm who was standing in Töreboda. They had to turn around and go back to Stockholm. Passengers were bused to Falkirk, where we linked up with traffic from Gothenburg direction, says Eva Nordén on Trafikverket’s press office.

At 17.30 was opened in one of the tracks in Skövde and rail traffic could thus pass the interruption location. But it was still very long delays on the Western Main Line for the rest of Sunday.

– We had a two hour delay for some trains, notify the Swedish Transport Administration.

The track was navigable meant that Trafikverket lapped trains from different directions past the site of the former break.

According to weary travelers GP had contact with there were many who expected much more than two hours of his departure.

“In Herrljunga, we estimated a hundred travelers who are still waiting for the 17:06 train to Stockholm to come and go. New Calculated departure is 19:51, but un Believe …, “wrote an irritated woman in an e-mail at 19.30.

According to the Swedish Transport Administration and SJ to about 25 trains have been affected by catenary failure, many of these were commuter trains in western Sweden.

There are yet no forecast for when both slots are open to traffic. Trafikverket notifies However, significant delays until midnight.

– But the morning traffic looks set to float on as usual, said Beisi Sundin Transport Administration to TT at 22 o’clock.

Affected SJ Photos can be compensated for their tidförluster, according to travel time guarantee.