After a series of public tenderings the Swedish state railways SJ won almost all passenger rail traffic in Norway, except for the regional traffic around Oslo and a couple of routes, such as Oslo-Bergen. SJ operates now these Norwegian trains using the trademark name SJ Nord. Passenger coaches and multiple units have also mostly received a new painting with blue front parts.
This is a series BM73 express train multiple unit, now in the new colours of SJ Nord. It's seen here running the long distance service From Oslo to Trondheim. Compare with older pictures of similar trains which you can find in our category NSB/Vy.
Picture from Trondheim 7.7.2022 by Marek Graff.

Another picture of a BM73 electric multiple unit, here just leaving Trondheim station in the direction south, towards Oslo.
Picture from Trondheim 7.7.2022 by Marek Graff.

This is a brand new train. It's a Stadler FLIRT of the class 76, a dual power train, electric + diesel. Notice the short special coach which is the third one from its front. It's a so called diesel power pack car. This train can run like any normal electric train whereever electricity is available from an overhead catenary. Where the lines are not electrified, this one can run as a diesel train using its diesel power pack wagon. The Norwegians are now planning to use these new trains to replace most of their old diesel multiple units and even long distance diesel locomotive driven express trains on the Trondheim to Bodø long route. Similar dual mode FLIRT trains have been ordered to several other countries as well, including Italy.
Picture of a dual power FLIRT, class 76 in SJ Nord's colours, from Trondheim 6.7.2022 by Marek Graff.

Another picture of a class 76 dual power or "bimodal" FLIRT. These first ones were delivered by Stadler to Norway 2020-21. In this first phase they are to be used on the Oslo-Hamar–Røros–Trondheim and Steinkjer–Trondheim-Røros services replacing old class 92 diesel multiple units. A class 76 FLIRT set consists of six coaches which are fixed together with Jacobs bogies. Class 76 trains can be combined with traditional FLIRT units of the classes 74 or 75 - and that is exactly what you can see here happening. In such a case there will be just two motorised bogies available in diesel mode to drive the whole long train.
Picture from Trondheim 7.7.2022 by Marek Graff.

One of the dual electric/diesel mode EDMU trains, a new Stadler FLIRT of the Norwegian class BM 76 is here at the station of Steinkjer, ready to leave as Regionaltog R70 Steinkjer-Lundamo. And now as a diesel train. Picture from Steinkjer 5.8.2023 by Marko Kuusela.

An old class 92 diesel multiple unit. Notice how SJ Nord has not even bothered to repaint it to their new colours, it has only received very small white stickers on its sides to declare that it now runs for SJ Nord and not any more for NSB whose colours it still carries. This is because the plan is to rapidly scrap all these old German Düwag trains as they have now reached technically their end of life. These will all be replaced by the multimodal FLIRT trains shown above. This Düwag is here seen just arriving at Trondheim station to soon depart for Steinkjer.
Picture from Trondheim 7.7.2022 by Marek Graff.

A class EL18 electric locomotive pulling a traditional locomotive powered train of SJ Nord, here just arriving at Oslo sentral. Notice that the locomotive has not been repainted, it has just received small stickers to inform that it is now running for SJ Nord. The coaches behind have all been repainted however.
Picture from Oslo sentral 5.7.2022 by Marek Graff.

So called type 5 coaches, now painted in the new colours of SJ Nord. These coaches were built by the Strømmen factory 1977-81.
Picture from Oslo sentral 5.7.2022 by Marek Graff.

So called type 7 coaches, built to replace the older type 5 shown above. These have now also been taped/painted to the SJ Nord's new livery but in doing so, covering a couple of windows in a stupid way. These coaches were also built by Strømmens Værksted, but in 1982 to 1988. Nowadays the need for locomotive pulled express train passenger coaches is diminishing all the time, but these coaches are still the newest in Norway. They are now only used on Bergensbanen Oslo-Bergen (in the new colours of Vy) and every now and then on Sørlandsbanen (Oslo-Kristiansand-Stavanger). This train that we see has most likely just arrived as a night train from Stavanger. Although these are the newest locomotive pulled express train coaches in the country, most of them are by now at the end of their technical life span due to heavy corrosion troubles.
Picture from Oslo sentral 8.7.2022 by Marek Graff.

A class Di4 heavy diesel pulling an express train from Bodø to Trondheim, here just arriving at Trondheim station. Only five of these huge engines were ever built and they were to be replaced by the class Di6 produced by MaK/Siemens already a long time ago. But the Di6 was a failure, and the Di6 locomotives were returned to their builder, which has then after a lot of rebuilding work tried to lease them in Germany with very limited success. So these oldies had to go on working. They were produced by Henschel in 1980.
Note that there is no indication whatsover on the outside of the locomotive that this train runs now for SJ Nord. The type 5 coaches behind have all been repainted however. Even the registering markings on its side only say that the machine belongs to Norske Tog, the state owned train leasing company. And it still carries the old NSB logo on its front. But these are all now planned to be replaced quite soon by new Stadler Flirt trains of the type BM 76.
Picture from Trondheim 8.7.2022 by Marek Graff.

This picture is from the times long before anything called SJ Nord and also long before the corona pandemic, which stopped all cross border train traffic. In "the old days" Swedish SJ used to run a direct express train between Stockholm and Oslo. Here we see such a train in Oslo in the bitter cold of a snowy January afternoon.
Picture of a Swedish SJ Rc6 with Swedish coaches at Oslo sentral 18.1.2009 by Ilkka Siissalo.

Before the times when SJ operated RC6 driven express trains between Stockholm and Oslo, there was a short period when the Norwegian NSB and the Swedish SJ had a joint venture company Linx, which ran train services from Stockholm and from Göteborg to Oslo. But Linx was not a long living company before it went bankrupt. Here we see one of Linx' Swedish X2000 bullet trains in Oslo.
Picture from Oslo sentral in 2004 by Ilkka Siissalo.