Today is my 3rd Saturday with trips from Stockholm southbound by regional trains.
The morning departures are:
8:21 21525: Stockholm-Köpenhamn, SJ X2
8:26 2061: Stockholm-Göteborg, MTRX
8:29 125: Stockholm-Hallsberg, SJ Reg
8:44 263: Gävle-Linköping, SJ Reg
MTR Express train for Göteborg
Platform 10 is the easiest accessible with direct entrance from the main hall.
Next after MTR Express train is my train to Linköping. It is a through service from Gävle.
Today my trip will make a circle with stops in Linköping, Mjölby, Skänninge, Hallsberg, Kumla, Arboga.
On the opposite platform track 11 and 12 are the trains departing to Hallsberg and Arboga that I took previous two Saturdays.
Today it will be X40 train
Passing by Katrineholm Rail Point
Passing nearby SKF Mekan in Katrineholm, old structures are demolished and new are built
After stops in Södertälje and Norrköping, it is time for the last stop in Linköpin
X40 has space for luggage
Upper floor
Heating plant Tekniska Verken in Linköping
Next is the Östgötapendel to Skänninge
In Mjölby the train is changing direction, so there is a longer stop
Passengers can change trains for Tranås
The network of Östgötapendeln
Tickets can be purchased directly on the train
I get off in Skänninge
The train was not is use for 40 years between 1973 and 2013
Between 1940 and 1943 the transportation of german soldiers and weapons was made by rail through this town. The name of the town was covered to not the german soldiers know where they were. The transports were from Trelleborg to Narvik and Haparanda.
Medieval Vårfrukyrkan church build by germans 1306
Ture Lång statue symbolising the justice in town right in the square where punishment was executed
The cinema
TMZ 1404 from TXL logistics. The locomotive is from 1968
It is train number 69002 from Alvesta to Kil
My next train is Tåg i Bergslagen to Kumla
Historical billboards at the station
From 2014 the TiB trains are also stopping here
Approaching Motala
Motala Verkstad old station
AB Motala Verkstad building and maintaining railway equipment among others
Godegård
Skeppsjön lake
Mariedamm
The railway between Motala and Hallsberg has still a single track except for some meeting stations, like here in Mariedamm
TMZ locomotive i saw earlier
However, constructions of a new double track railway is in progress
This part will be completed 2019
Rönneshytta
Åsbro
Tisarbaden
Before Hallsberg the railway is split into two tracks, one for passenger and other for freight trains
Hallsberg
In Hallsberg the train is switching direction
"Vattenhäst" - a water crane used to deliver water into the tank of a steam locomotive
"Rallaren"
I get off in Kumla
Green Cargo train 9052 from Göteborg to Borlänge
X40 train to Göteborg
¡No pasarán!
Green Cargo train 5081 from Boden to Hallsberg
My next train is X40 to Arboga
In Arboga I switch trains to locomotive hauled Regional service back to Stockholm
Statue of Engelbrekt - a Swedish rebel leader and later statesman.
Market in Arboga
"Den lyckliga filosofen" statue of Richard Brixel
Heliga Trefaldighets kyrka
Today my train has Rc6-A7-B11-BF7-B10-B10-Rc6 composition
B10 coach. Totally 35 coaches of this type were rebuilt from B2 to B10 between 2001-2003. They were originally built 1988-1989.
The old station is located about 800m from the new one opened in 1997.
The old station is from 1857
Valskog
Mälarbanan continues to Köping, while my train is taking off to Eskilstuna
Eskilstuna
I get off in Flemingsberg instead of Stockholm C.
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