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When the new night trains are in service in Sweden, they should reduce the travel time a bit. And Norrbotniabanan and the current upgrades on Ostkustbanan should cut down the travel time by a couple of hours.

Roslagsbanan is very interesting in many ways. An odd gauge (891 mm) but has pretty modern standard, mostly double track, modern signalling and continuous welded track. But north of Vallentuna it gets very rural and the northern end is the small village Kårsta.

That is a good question. Here is one of the local buses in Enköping (town population ~27000). https://www.bussmicke.se/Bildgalleri/Bussar/Sverige/K/Keolis/8600/index.html#img=Keolis_8608_Bangardsgatan_Enkoping_2022-09-20.jpg

Stockholm has two isolated local railways. Roslagsbanan, a narrow gauge railway that serves the northeastern suburbs. And Saltsjöbanan to the southeastern suburbs. Saltsjöbanan is standard gauge but not connected to the national rail network and electrified with 750 V overhead wire.

Where I live, two door buses are used for regional routes with less frequent stops. City buses usually have three sets of doors, bendy buses sometimes have four. If that is important, you can install a speaker close the driver and connect it to a microphone close to the rear door. Problem solved.

I'd say there is an indication in the wording they use for the restaurant service. And the schedule matches IC38 and IC37 pretty well.

I can't imagine that being a problem. And in any case, just close the restaurant when the train is in Sweden. It's not uncommon for restaurant cars to not open until a few minutes after departure anyway.

I don't think Norrtåg will change their schedule before the schedule change in December. But hopefully there are discussions between Norrtåg and VR on how to improve the situation.

Short answer: No

As a EU citizen, I agree. Something like that would be a start. It would be madness to actually spend time on membership negogiations with the UK, only to have Reform win the next election. Do I want the UK back as member? Yes, eventually. But not at the moment.

I assume finnish time, so 22.44 swedish time.

Or maybe they solved the problem? But it was a rumour I heard and I don't know more than that.

A step in the right direction!

From what I've heard, they realised that it could be problematic running with a loco in each end to Germany. During the stop in Padborg, one loco would be under 15 kV and the other under 25 kV.

I followed the live reporting from Yle for a while and it's interesting to see that the vote did not follow the party lines perfectly. The Greens all voted yes, and the Swedish People's party, the Centre party and the True Finns all voted no. But the Left and the Coalition party (conservative)...

Thank you very much for the update! It's interesting to hear what's happening. The state of Rail Baltica is depressing, but I'm happy to hear that other things are going well. And the new Flirts look great!

I won't argue with that! If there is enough capacity on the line for it.

I'm not sure an ICE4 would be too much capacity north of Hamburg, at least not in the summer. The trains can be pretty full. DB runs a once daily ICE between Frankfurt and Padborg in the summer using a 7 car ICE T, and if the trains could run on 25 kV there is probably enough demand to extend...

Probably not, although is hasn't stopped DB from using them on Berlin–Amsterdam. It's a pity the ICE4 is 15 kV only.

While electrification certainly costs money, electric trains are cheaper to operate. And when I look for trains I see six trains per hour between Belfast and Bangor during rush hour, it's in my opinion really strange to run that service with diesel trains. And it's such a short route and...