{"id":17995,"date":"2026-05-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/vr-sverige-wins-a-new-contract-in-the-south-of-sweden\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T00:00:00","slug":"vr-sverige-wins-a-new-contract-in-the-south-of-sweden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/vr-sverige-wins-a-new-contract-in-the-south-of-sweden\/","title":{"rendered":"VR Sverige wins a new contract in the south of Sweden."},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"entry-content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Region Sk\u00e5ne and Sk\u00e5netrafiken have awarded VR Sverige a new contract to operate the P\u00e5gat\u00e5gen regional rail services in southern Sweden.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">VR Sverige has now won the P\u00e5gat\u00e5gen contract for the third consecutive term, retaining responsibility for operations of a core component of public transport in Sk\u00e5ne. The operator will continue to handle maintenance and servicing of the fleet in cooperation with Euromaint.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under the new arrangement, Sk\u00e5netrafiken will assume responsibility for replacement bus services during disruptions, with the aim of improving coordination and passenger service. VR Sverige will maintain its local organisation in southern Sweden, with the P\u00e5gat\u00e5gen headquarters remaining adjacent to Malm\u00f6 Central station.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">VR P\u00e5gat\u00e5gen employs around 750 staff. In addition to the P\u00e5gat\u00e5gen network, VR Sverige is the second-biggest Swedish passenger rail operator, also operating the \u00d6resundst\u00e5g, T\u00e5g i Bergslagen, X-trafik, Norrt\u00e5g services, and will take over M\u00e4lart\u00e5g operations from 2026.<\/p>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Region Sk\u00e5ne and Sk\u00e5netrafiken have awarded VR Sverige a new contract to operate the P\u00e5gat\u00e5gen regional rail services in southern Sweden.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}