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“Swedish State Railway SJ accuses Norwegian State of “Economic Doping” in Train Industry”

In 2020, then transport minister Knut Arild Hareide celebrated that Swedish SJ would run trains in Norway.

Three years later, SJ director Monica Lingegård accuses Vy and the Norwegian state of economic doping.

STOCKHOLM (Aftenposten): SJ was invited to drive trains in Norway. Now the Swedes believe they have been tricked and overtaken.

In 2020, a train from Sweden’s state railway company rolled into Oslo S. On the platform stood an excited Norwegian transport minister to welcome them.

Three years later, a derailment has occurred, SJ believes. The Swedes believe they came to Norway on what have become false premises. But the criticism is sent across the border again with the same coin.

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