Five new trains are unused on the Inlandsbanan after a purchase for SEK 170 million

The five new trains have cost Inlandsbanan 170 million kroner to purchase and adapt for traffic along the roughly 100-mile-long railway stretch between Mora and Gällivare. In the summer of 2019, a demonstration trip was made between Östersund and Mora, but beyond that the trains have never been used.

First they got stuck in Poland, where they had to adapt to their new life in northern Sweden's interior, when the corona pandemic and the war in Ukraine put a damper on the wheels. But after they were approved for traffic and moved to Sweden, they have only been parked on a track in Brunflo. And they look set to remain there for the foreseeable future.

Want to get them in traffic

Inlandsbanan AB's CEO, Otto Nilsson, says that you cannot operate public transport along the route yourself, but that it is up to the regions to decide on traffic on the Inlandsbanan.

- We have considered various financial solutions for the trains. We want to get them moving and try to find ways to get them going. But if that doesn't work, it may be appropriate to rent them out or ultimately sell them, he says.

There is therefore no planned sale at the moment, although Otto Nilsson says that they are open to it and then primarily to Europe.

Region: not applicable

Region Jämtland Härjedalen currently does not see the conditions for passenger traffic along the Inlandsbanan and believes it will be some time before it becomes relevant. But Jenny Sellsve (S), chairman of the public transport committee in Region Jämtland Härjedalen, says that they still look positively on the possibility of passenger traffic on the route and the plans for upgrading.

- We are prepared if the conditions are there, she says.