Pågatågen is an interurban railway system in
Skåne County
Skåne County ( sv, Skåne län, link=no ), sometimes referred to as Scania County in English, is the most southern county, or , of Sweden, basically corresponding to the traditional province Scania. It borders the counties of Halland, Kronobe ...
,
Sweden
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, and is run by
Skånetrafiken
Skånetrafiken is the regional public transit district in Skåne län, in the south of Sweden.
Skånetrafiken was founded in 1999 when the two counties Kristianstads län and Malmöhus län were merged into one region, causing the two respe ...
, the regional public transportation authority. The trains are operated by the contractor
Arriva
Arriva plc is a British multinational public transport company headquartered in Sunderland, England.[Malmö
Malmö (, ; da, Malmø ) is the largest city in the Swedish county (län) of Scania (Skåne). It is the third-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg, and the sixth-largest city in the Nordic region, with a municipal populat ...]
Urban Area: Malmö C, Triangeln, Hyllie, Svågertorp, Persborg, Rosengård, Östervärn and Burlöv and 4 in the
Helsingborg
Helsingborg (, , , ) is a city and the seat of Helsingborg Municipality, Scania (Skåne), Sweden. It is the second-largest city in Scania (after Malmö) and ninth-largest in Sweden, with a population of 113,816 (2020). Helsingborg is the cent ...
Urban Area: Helsingborg C, Ramlösa, Rydebäck and Ödåkra.
''Påg'' is a dialectal Scanian word for 'boy', and is used to indicate that the trains are local/regional, and ''tåg'' is Swedish for train. The trains consist of purple-coloured
electric multiple unit
An electric multiple unit or EMU is a multiple-unit train consisting of self-propelled carriages using electricity as the motive power. An EMU requires no separate locomotive, as electric traction motors are incorporated within one or a numbe ...
s of the X61 model. The last trip using the old model X11 was made on 8 September 2013. The trains are named after famous local people, either real or fictional.
Lines
As of December 2018, there are ten lines in the Pågatågen system. There are stops in three neighbouring counties: three stops in
Blekinge County
Blekinge County ( sv, Blekinge län) is a county or '' län'' in the south of Sweden. It borders the Counties of Skåne, Kronoberg, Kalmar and the Baltic Sea. The capital is Karlskrona. It is the smallest of the present administrative countie ...
, two stops in
Halland County
Halland County ( sv, Hallands län, link=no, ) is a county ('' län'') on the western coast of Sweden. It corresponds roughly to the cultural and historical province of Halland. The capital is Halmstad.
It borders the counties of Västra Göta ...
and one stop in
Kronoberg County
Kronoberg County (; sv, Kronobergs län) is a county or '' län'' in southern Sweden. Kronoberg is one of three counties in the province of Småland. It borders the counties of Skåne, Halland, Jönköping, Kalmar, and Blekinge. Its capital is ...
.
Local trains from neighbouring
Småland
Småland () is a historical province () in southern Sweden.
Småland borders Blekinge, Scania, Halland, Västergötland, Östergötland and the island Öland in the Baltic Sea. The name Småland literally means ''Small Lands''. The Latinized fo ...
also operate within Scania on the route
Växjö
Växjö ( ) is a city and the seat of Växjö Municipality, Kronoberg County, Sweden. It had 70,489 inhabitants (2019) out of a municipal population of 95,995 (2021). It is the administrative, cultural, and industrial centre of Kronoberg County ...
–
Älmhult
Älmhult () is a locality and the seat of Älmhult Municipality in Kronoberg County, Sweden with 8,955 inhabitants in 2010.
It was in Älmhult that the first IKEA (the Swedish furniture company) store was built. IKEA continues to have a large c ...
–Hässleholm.
Rolling stock
The Pågatåg rolling stock is owned by
Skånetrafiken
Skånetrafiken is the regional public transit district in Skåne län, in the south of Sweden.
Skånetrafiken was founded in 1999 when the two counties Kristianstads län and Malmöhus län were merged into one region, causing the two respe ...
, although the operation (staff and licences etc.) is carried out by
Arriva
Arriva plc is a British multinational public transport company headquartered in Sunderland, England.[X11
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(with diesel
Y1 railcars used on the then-non-electrified Malmö-Ystad line from 1990–1996), but as demand grew, other available train types had to be added to the roster. Some
Bombardier Regina X52 type trainsets were rented from other train owners. The type
X31, normally used for the Øresundståg traffic to Denmark, was also used sometimes. Subsequently, Skånetrafiken ordered 99 new
Alstom Coradia
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X61 sets, a variant of the type used in Stockholm. Several of them have been used on revenue services since August 2010, and since 2013 they have taken over all services. Skånetrafiken attempted to sell most of the X11 trains during 2011, since they can no longer be used; they do not fulfill all the safety requirements for the City Tunnel in Malmö and had only a temporary exception from the rules.
Note that the rolling stock for the Øresundståg, outside of the Pågatåg concession, is of Class X31 only, and these trains are owned by
Transitio {{notability, Companies, date=July 2017
Transitio AB is a Swedish limited liability company that is owned by its customers (Transitio is owned by 20 regions and public transportation authorities.), a mix of different regions and public tran ...
(partially owned by Skånetrafiken), or by the Danish train operator
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.
Tickets
For the Pågatågen trains as well as the
Øresundståg
Øresundståg (, ) is a passenger train network operated by Skånetrafiken and Transdev in the transnational Øresund Region of Denmark and Sweden. The name is a hybrid of the Danish ''Øresundstog'' and the Swedish ''Öresundståg'', both meanin ...
, paper tickets or passes can be used but tickets bought on a mobile phone using Skånetrafiken's app are also valid. The paper tickets can be bought from machines at the stations. This is in contrast to buses where electronic contactless smartcards are used. The reason for the difference is that half of the Øresundståg rolling stock is owned by Danish DSB which does not want to install Swedish ticket machines.
See also
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Öresund Trains
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History of rail transport in Sweden
The history of Sweden's railways has included both state-owned and private railways.
Private railways
The early years 1845–1914
In 1845 the Swedish count Adolf Eugene von Rosen received permission to build railways in Sweden. He started buildi ...
*
Rail transport in Sweden
Rail transport in Sweden uses a network of 15006.25 km of track, the 22nd largest in the world. Construction of the first railway line in Sweden began in 1855. The major operator of passenger trains has traditionally been the state-owned ...
References
External links
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Rail transport in Skåne County
Regional rail in Sweden
Rail transport in the Øresund Region
1983 in rail transport
1983 establishments in Sweden