Train from Tromsø/Narvik to Stockholm

Hello Melissa,

I did a similar trip quite a few years ago, from Narvik to Stockholm, and at that time, had to change trains in Gallivare. I'm guessing that things could have changed a bit in that time. As you already found out, you will first need to take a bus from Tromsø to Narvik (3 hours, 45 min.), then catch a train from there, involving a train change in Gallivare or Boden. Looking at a random day in early August on the Swedish railway website - www.sj.se/en, I see trains leaving Narvik at at 14:35 (IC 99), arriving in Boden at 21:23, where you have 55 min. to change trains to the night train to Stockholm (SJ night train 93), departing Boden at 22:18 and arriving in Stockholm the next morning at 10:13.

Swedish train schedules are only loaded about 2 months ahead, so depending on when in August you are traveling, you might have to wait a few weeks to see schedules and buy tickets, but it appears they go fairly regularly.

You could also fly from Tromsø to Stockholm. which would certainly be faster. SAS has direct flights taking about 2 hours, but they don't run everyday. There are other options involving a change in Oslo, taking 3.5 hours. See www.skyscanner.com for options.

Thanks, Rich - I've done some more digging into the trains, and have discovered that the actual train from Narvik (IC99) only runs very intermittently (on Aug 3, Aug 4, and Sept 2) - on these days, there's the one change in Boden to SJ93. The rest of the days will have the bus from Narvik to Gallivare, connecting to 99 and 93. There are some days with transportation only at 2:00 in the morning, and some days nothing seems to be scheduled! Perhaps things will change as we get closer to mid-August; at the moment we have reservations that can be cancelled (including the 3-person cabin). Thanks!

There are track works this summer, hence a lot of bus replacements.

some days nothing seems to be scheduled! Perhaps things will change as we get closer to mid-August

Some days, like August 13 searching Kiruna-Boden I see trains that can't be booked yet since they are waiting for a finalized schedule. Since the schedule isn't set yet, they haven't added a replacement bus Narvik-Kiruna and a search from Narvik will give zero results.

There is page in Swedish (use a web browser that can translate) about some of the dates, I guess they more dates later when details are set: https://www.sj.se/allt-om-resan/banarbeten/norra-sverige-2026

but we'd have to spend an overnight in Gallivare to catch the "night train" the next day. Let me know your experiences and suggestions!

For example this week there are no connections (without an overnight layover) so I guess it can happen again. It is possible to have the layover in Luleå which is a bigger place.

If you overnight in Gallivare there is another rail option until the end of the summer season on 12 August- that is to take the day train the Inlandsbanan to Ostersund, overnight then SJ train to Stockholm next morning (there is also a connecting night train from Ostersund to Stockholm).

It is a pretty long rail day, but quite an interesting one. Many people, including me, break the journey into two with an intermediate overnight at Arvidsjaur- https://res.inlandsbanan.se/upload/A4_TIDTABELL_2026.pdf