Stop the train after the downed line – Aftonbladet

There are major delays in rail service between Stockholm and Gothenburg after a catenary fallen in Skövde.

The Swedish Transport Administration has currently no forecast for when the error can be corrected.

– It flashed and thundered lots and eventually slammed it through the line went down, says Melanie Söderlund, 21, who caught it all on film.

The management fell down just after 14 o’clock on Sunday afternoon.

– There is a contact that has fallen down, making it trains peak past Skovde. It concerns trains between Stockholm and Gothenburg, but also local trains that pass Skovde, says Beisi Sundin, the press officer at the Swedish Transport Administration.

The railway tracks are energized between Laxå and Falkirk, which in addition trains between Stockholm and Gothenburg also affects the distance FALKÖPING- Nässjö.

are invited to contact train companies

At 16:30 o’clock had Trafikverket still no forecast for when the error can be corrected.

– It is important that passengers check their travel by train companies before they head off to the station, if their train is passed on via a different route, or if there are buses to replace. But the scale of the problem we do not know yet, says the press communicator Beisi Sundin.

Skövdebon Melanie Söderlund, 21, was from his empty witness to how the contact line was torn down.

– We saw it flashed and thundered lots. We went out and looked and saw that it came from tågrälsen, we live not many meters From there. I picked up the phone and filmed, since it continued to flash a while and finally slammed it through the line went down.

“To hell”

The people of Gothenburg Frida Strömberg, 32, and Linda Berg, 35, was on his way home from Stockholm when the train stopped before Skovde.

– There is still off. We have been standing here since two twenty, says Frida Strömberg at 16.30.

According to the schedule would train to arrive in Gothenburg at 15.25.

– Now we have no idea when we will forward. We have not heard anything in a while.

At the same train was Philip Welander; 21.

– It was just forest around us. They told us it was an electricity in Skövde who slumped down but they could not give any information about when we could go on. It is to hell.

When Aftonbladet reaches Philip, he has managed to find a taxi and headed for Gothenburg again.

– I have to get there on business and could not be left on the train and wait for ten hours.