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I wanted to write this post for several months since in July I finally had a chance to travel on some of the important Swedish railways.

Well, as anybody knows, I love Sweden and railways. And Swedish railways too. And obviously I’d like to ride them all and recently I’ve moved much closer to that goal.

There are this important railways in Sweden (sorry if I forgot some but this list should cover the most important ones):

• Ostkustbanan (Stockholm—Uppsala—Gävle—Sundsvall)
• Ådalsbanan+Botniabanan (Sundsvall—Kramfors—Umeå)
• Norra stambanan (Gävle—Ånge)
• Stambanan genom övre Norrland (Ånge—Bräcke—Vännäs—Boden)
• Malmbanan (Luleå—Boden—Kiruna—Narvik)
• Mittbanan (Sundsvall—Ånge—Östersund—Storlien—Hell—Trondheim)
• Inlandsbanan (Gällivare—Östersund—Orsa—Mora)
• Dalabanan+Siljansbanan (Uppsala—Borlänge, Borlänge—Mora)
• Bergslagsbanan (Gävle—Borlänge—Frövi)
• Västra stambanan (Stockholm—Göteborg)
• Södra stambanan (Stockholm—Malmö)
• Mälarbanan (Stockholm—Västerås—Örebro)
• Svealandsbanan (Stockholm—Eskilstuna—Arboga)
• Värmlandsbanan (Laxå—Charlottenberg, further to Oslo)
• Kust till kust-banan (Göteborg—Alvesta—Kalmar)
• Västkustbanan (Lund—Göteborg)
• Jönköpingsbanan (Nässjö—Falköping)

And I want to talk about those railways and my experience there.
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