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By Frédéric de Kemmeter – Railway signalling and freelance copywriter
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Fret_NOR_02German couchettes cars for a Norwegian night train – 03/11/2021 – Vy Tog, the former Norwegian state operator NSB, had never used couchettes cars on domestic night train services in Norway, but used only sleeping and seating cars. This lacked an intermediate level of comfort, as on the Austrian Nightjets. This will change. Due to the lack of new cars for sale, Vy Tog picked up two vehicles of German origin in Oslo and bought six more in Crailsheim, Germany…

Fret_NOR_02When Norway helps rail freight, even private companies – 12/02/2019 – Four freight train operators will receive state aid totaling NOK 60 million (EUR 5.94 million) to transport more goods by rail. The incumbent carrier CargoNet AS and the three Swedish competitors Green Cargo AB, Hector Rail AB and Tågåkeriet i Bergslagen AB (TÅGAB), all active in Norway, will also receive support. What’s interesting is that Norway is not part of the European Union but subscribes

NSB_1Swedish projects for norwegian trains – 09/24/2019 – As a result of winning Norway’s liberalized package 2 (called North packet), SJ Norge will bring big positive changes to train service of this country which is not member of European union. SJ Norge AS is a wholly owned subsidiary of the railway swedish incumbent SJ Group. The subsidiary in Norway is managed…

NO_1More tenders for Norwegian railways – 09/05/2019 – Calls for tenders for rail services follow one after another in Norway, a country that is non-member of the European Union.« The experience of the first two competitions in rail traffic on Sørlandsbanen and on the northern routes is successful, as the offers will be at least as good as the current traffic and, at the same time, the State will spend much less taxpayer’s money for the purchase of rail links », explains…

NSB and Nettbuss are changing their names to Vy
04/27/2019 – That’s radical. The Norwegian public railway company NSB changes its name radically and becomes Vy. The change was mostly visible on the customers’ app, because nothing changes either for the staff or for the service of trains and buses of the old company. Apart from Great Britain, which has made everything disappear, no historical…