Trains and tracks: Made for each other or in need of forced separation? The case of Norway

15 December 2021

Ingeborg Eliassen

Environment/Derailed

Trains and tracks: Made for each other or in need of forced separation? The case of Norway

Ingeborg Eliassen

15 December 2021

About Derailed

2021 is the official “Year of Rail” in the EU, and the “Connecting Europe Express” train recently finished its tour of Europe to promote the great advantages and decisive importance of railways in the green transition. But what was meant as a PR coup revealed the weaknesses of the system, which is more a patchwork than a coordinated network of trains across the continent.

Even though it is not a member of the European Union, Norway has heeded the EU’s call to divide the operations and infrastructure of its railways.

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