Due to the weather, all train services in Norrbotten will be cancelled from Friday morning to Sunday evening. No replacement buses are expected either \u2013 even though SMHI has only issued a class 1 warning in the interior of Norrbotten and along the coast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
SMHI has currently issued two class 2 warnings for V\u00e4sterbotten and V\u00e4sternorrland. The snowstorm is expected to continue this weekend and therefore the Swedish Transport Administration is planning to close parts of the railway completely over the weekend, as it is feared that trains will be stopped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2013 We want to keep the railway closed so we can clear in the meantime, says Katarina Wolffram, press communicator at the Swedish Transport Administration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One of the closed routes runs between V\u00e4nn\u00e4s and Boden. That route will be closed from Friday morning until Sunday 6:00 PM, which means that all night trains to and from Norrbotten will be canceled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now Vy T\u00e5g has also announced that they have decided to cancel all trains in Norrbotten from Friday at 4:00 a.m. to Sunday at 6:00 p.m., despite the Swedish Transport Administration keeping the railway between Boden and Narvik open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This means that a passenger could take a replacement bus to and from Boden and then get on the train. However, Vy T\u00e5g will not be deploying any replacement buses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2013 No, we don't do that when trains are canceled due to severe weather. Because we don't know what the road conditions are like either, says Stefan Linder, business manager at Vy T\u00e5g.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
SMHI has issued a class 2 warning over the Lapland mountains from Thursday evening to Friday morning. However, in the rest of the county, SMHI has only issued a class 1 warning from Thursday evening to Friday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The weather looks pretty normal in Norrbotten this weekend. Why aren't you deploying replacement buses?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2013 We are based on the Swedish Transport Administration's forecasts and according to them the snow storm is moving upwards towards Lule\u00e5, Boden and \u00c4lvsbyn, says Stefan Linder, business manager at Vy T\u00e5g.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But the Transport Administration chooses to keep open north of Boden?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2013 <\/em>We will monitor this continuously and the Swedish Transport Administration will hold several decision-making meetings that may change the plan. But right now this is the plan that applies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Vy T\u00e5g states that they will offer overnight accommodation to affected passengers and help with cancellation of the trip. Malmtrafiken will not be affected by the weather and will continue as usual.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Source: svt.se<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" P\u00e5 grund av v\u00e4dret kommer all t\u00e5gtrafik i Norrbotten att st\u00e4llas in fr\u00e5n fredagsmorgon till s\u00f6ndagskv\u00e4ll. Inga ers\u00e4ttningsbussar v\u00e4ntas heller \u2013 trots att SMHI endast utf\u00e4rdat en klass 1-varning i Norrbottens inland och l\u00e4ngs kusten. SMHI har i nul\u00e4get utf\u00e4rdat tv\u00e5 klass 2-varningar f\u00f6r V\u00e4sterbotten och V\u00e4sternorrland. I helgen v\u00e4ntas sn\u00f6ov\u00e4dret forts\u00e4tta och d\u00e4rf\u00f6r planerar […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[567,191,307],"class_list":["post-237594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-report","tag-sno","tag-tag-taag","tag-tagtrafik"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n