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Europe’s northernmost cross-border railway still closed two months after ore train derailed

By Thomas Nilsen, The Barents Observer February 14, 2024

It was a week before Christmas a fully-loaded iron-ore train, en route from Kiruna in northern Sweden to Narvik on the coast of the Norwegian Sea jumped off the rail at Vassijaure Station, not far from the border between the two countries.

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