The skyfall that occurred a week and a half ago led to cut-off train traffic and about 40 damaged roads. One person died when the road section he was traveling on ruptured.
Even though the situation is no longer acute, the work of getting the Main Line through upper Norrland passable again remains, after a freight train derailed near Skorped in Örnsköldsvik municipality.
We started lifting the containers yesterday and that work is expected to take two days. But then the railway embankment must be restored before we can release the traffic, says press communicator Peter Jonsson at the Swedish Transport Administration.
On the Ådalsbanan, near Prästmon in Kramfors municipality, a derailed train with timber has been able to be salvaged, but there too the railway embankment must be restored. This will take weeks.
Most of the larger roads that were damaged are passable, but there are still individual roads that need to be addressed.
In addition, there is the work of the insurance companies to handle all the damage that has occurred to properties, both buildings and land. Likewise, road associations will have to restore their roads. It will cost a lot of money and it will take time, says emergency director Torbjörn Westman at the County Administrative Board of Västernorrland.
