Meråker Line
The railway line Trondheim Storlien is a 102 km long single-track railway line between Storlien in Sweden and Trondheim in Norway. The passenger trains, the company provides Mittnabotåget. Your trains between Trondheim and Östersund. On the route also goods trains.
The railway line is historically referred to as Meråkerbanen. The name refers to the breakpoint Meråker. Since January 6, 2008, the section (Trondheim ) Hell applies after a determination of Jernbaneverket as part of Nordlandsbane, Meråkerbanen has since according to this definition, only the approximately 70 -kilometer route ( Hell ) - ( Storlien ).
History
The line was about the same time the construction of the Norrländska Tvärbanan by Sweden between Sundsvall and Storlien by the Norwegian government - Norway was in union with Sweden - promoted as a so-called Mellanriksbana. These were routes that connected Norway and Sweden or Sweden and Finland.
The line was opened on 17 October 1881.
Connecting other rail lines
For now, the railway line was a stand-alone operation with no connection to the rest of the Norwegian and Swedish railway network. It was not until 1884, the long established southbound from Trondheim Dovrebahn was joined by apportioning their inner-city route to the Meråkerbahn. The branching in Hell north Nordland railway was opened from 1902 in sections.
Traffic
After earlier rather modest passenger services on the route, the offer was expanded gradually since the early 1990s, even if there is no continuous connection from Trondheim via Östersund addition.
In transport services between Heimdal, Trondheim and Östersund since September 22, 2002 two daily train pairs of Nabotåget, until June 2007 operated by the Norwegian NSB and the Swedish Länstrafiken i Jämtland County. These were partially funded by the EU Interreg IIIA program for cross-border cooperation.
On June 17, 2007, Veolia Transport took the Zugangebote Mittlinje in Sweden and in Norway Nabotåget and united them under the name Mittnabotåget. On the stretch of Trondheim -Hell hourly local trains by NSB run on to Steinkjer ( Trønderbanen ) as well as long distance trains of the NSB to Bodø.
The railway is an important route in the Norwegian freight network towards Sweden. The freight operates CargoNet.
Since November 2013, the through train service is interrupted to Sweden. Between the Storlien station and the Norwegian border, there has been subsidence and there is still the danger of a landslide. In May 2014, to reckon with the commissioning of a signal-dependent warning system. After the evaluation of test drilling is to decide whether the distance can be stabilized or whether an entirely new route has to be built.
Hell ( 1906)
Trondheim S
Future prospects
2006 lines of Meråkerbane with investments amounting to NOK 26.5 million was in the amount of 30 million NOK improved in 2007 to relocate the freight traffic on the roads between Trøndelag and Jämtland to the Machine. The axle load was increased from 20.5 tonnes in the now customary in Norway standard of 22.5 tonnes. At the same time the speed of freight trains of 50 be increased to 80 km / hr. The largest freight traffic includes timber transportation, especially for the paper manufacturer Norske Skog in Skogn. The 4.4 -kilometer Gevingåsen tunnel was opened in August 2011 and shortened the distance to 1627 meters.
The Meråkerbane is one of four Norwegian railway lines that have been recognized by the international UNECE as the main transport route.
It was planned, but not yet finally decided to electrify the route with the start of construction in 2013 and completion in July 2015.