Östergötland part 1

Last saturday in September, the trip went to beautiful town Vadstena in Östergötland.

 Waiting for the bus in Stockholm for the trip to the train.

 Clear blue sky

 Bus is arriving

 Next is the commuter train to Stockholm Central

 X2 from Stockholm C is passing through Stockholm suburbs, here is Flemingsberg

 The first stop is Norrköping

 The autumn is definitely here

 Getting off in Mjölby station, X2 is moving on to Copenhagen

 X2 heading south

 Beautiful house in Mjölby

 The house is called Villa Vik

 The old city hall building

 Clock tower of the old city hall

 Mjölby has many sculptures all around the town

 Sculpture and fountain

 "Mjölnare" sculpture by Elsie Dahlberg. Mjölnare means miller in Swedish.

 The town is placed on a river Svartån, which gave possibility to place mills and create the town.

 Old building in Mjölby, now housing a solarium.

 Back to the train station, now taking Östgötapendeln (local commuter train).

 Mjölby train station is an important intersection station for passengers travelling from e.g. Örebro south to Malmö.

 Östgötapendeln is using old X14 among others

 Inside X14

 Picture of Vadstena castle is decorating the wall inside X14

 Getting of at Skänninge station. This part of the commuter train (Mjölby-Motala) opened 2013.

 The railway Godstråket genom Bergsslagen, has been upgraded from single to double track, primarily for increased cargo train traffic.

 From Skänninge station, there is a bus, passing through fields of Östergötland.

 The bus is arriving to Vadstena train station.

 The trains to Vadstena was operating until 1963 and now there are only museum trains WFJ running here.

 People are sharing their apple harvest on the street.

 The old narrow gauge railway and Vadstena castle

 Vadstena is a small and beautiful town

 Many sculptures here as well, almost in every back yard

 Bath temperature for people wishing to swim in lake Vättern

 Lake Vättern is a narrow and long lake, dividing Sweden in Öster- and Västergötland. It is second largest lake in Sweden, after Vännern.

 Saint Bridget monastery, is now a hotel

 Narrow streets of Vadstena.

 The new monastery of Bridgettine nuns from 1963, currently numbers 13 nuns.

 The story of Saint Bridget monastery

 The place has been recently in focus by Swedish TV cooking programme Landgång

 The cafes in town are making attention of the upcoming Kanelbullens dag (Cinnamon bun day).

 Vadstena castle from 1500 century.

 Back to Skänninge station

 The pictures in the train station windows displays the glory days of Skänninge

 As well as some dark days, when german trains were passing here during World War II.

 The old spelling of the name "Skeninge", named after small river Skena

 The new X61 commuter trains from Östgötapendeln

 X61 is heading to Norrköping

From Skänninge, the trip continues to Motala, which is the end stop for Östgötapendeln.

 Passing by lake Vättern.

 The new high way bridge in Motala.

 X14 at Motala station.

 Station building from the front.

 The square outside.

 X51 from Tågkompaniet is arriving from the north.

 The old and the new

 Motala is one the four places in Sweden where the railway is crossing Göta Canal.

 Old brewery building in Motala

 The old bridge over Motala ström

 Motalabron bridge was opened 2013 as part of the BanaVäg Motala-Mjölby project which included new infrastructure for both road and railway in this region.

 In Sweden McDonald's is mentioned on the traffic signs.

 The new railway bridge and the old.

 Partly demolished old railway bridge

 Some tracks are still in place

 This old railway was part of the Motala-Fornåsa road

 Bridges over Motala ström, a river running from lake Vättern to the Baltic sea.

 Behind the bridge is the Motala long wave radio transmitter, where the first radio broadcasts in Sweden started.

 X61 over Göta Kanal bridge in Motala.

 Tågkompaniet is taking off to Hallsberg.

 Arriving at Hallsberg train station for change back to Stockholm

Railway tracks in the autumn sunset