Monday, February 15, 2016

Long delays for rail commuters – Sveriges Radio

Train traffic on Bohusbanan Göteborg-Ytterby is completely set during the day due to a fire in a technical buildings during the night of Saturday, when all the technology was eliminated.

Even Alependeln between Gothenburg and Alvangen is set. Only one in five trains go as planned on the route Gothenburg-Trollhättan, other trains turn of Trollhattan Alvangen and replaced by buses.

The technology of the switches on the tracks will need to be changed manually, and it can take weeks.

The Finnish Transport Agency has set up a crisis team and at lunchtime a new decision at lunchtime on how traffic should continue.

It was said yesterday was that the delay is about 15-20 minutes for the trains going. You have to be out in time. Can you change to bus it will probably take longer than it usually takes to train, says Katarina Wolffram, press communications officer at the Swedish Transport Administration.

– There is a technical buildings that govern them here 40 signals and eight switches that are now affected. All the technology was burning out, says Roger Lönndahl, director of Crisis Group on Transport Administration.

– We do not know the cause of the fire but there is an ongoing investigation.

What are you doing now a tt get started with the repair work?

– We are looking for spare parts in Sweden. Look after what we have in stock and what might be going on in other parts of the country. Maybe we can borrow it and take it down to Gothenburg. We also hunt suppliers to produce all the parts and a new technical buildings, says Roger Lönndahl.

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