Trains and other things: Sya, Strålsnäs, Frinnaryd, Solberga

Thursday, May 30, 2019

Sya, Strålsnäs, Frinnaryd, Solberga

This weekend's trip starts in Stockholm.

Sergels torg

Sankta Klara church - located near the central station

Central station in Stockholm on Friday afternoon

1.53 min later I'm in Degerfors. This train 643 must be the fastest connection between Stockholm and Degerfors, since it is operated with X2 train.

Degerfors station

Train 16818 from Karlstad to Sävenäs

Rd2 1081

Following day, I'm travelling to Södra stambanan to check some old stations. I'm starting with Sya which lost its passenger stop in 1973.

Sya is located between Mjölby and Mantorp stations

Sya station building

Today the station is a restaurant

It is clear from the size of the overhead line support structure that there were many tracks here before and a station

This weekend, the line through Hallsberg is completely closed, which means that trains between Stockholm and Göteborg have to take this southern line instead and travel through Helsingborg, Borås or Falköping.

Train 90335 is travelling from Stockholm to Göteborg via Hässleholm, Markaryd and Halmstad.

Östgötapendeln train X61

X2 train south of Mjölby. This is train 90318 from Göteborg to Stockholm through Borås and Alvesta.

MTR Express decided to operate only until Nässjö, where the rest of the trip to Göteborg was done with replacement busses. Here is train 96903 from Stockholm to Nässjö.