To Stockholm

A 7.30am train from Oslo to Stock­holm — some rather quaint and eld­erly Swedish Rail­way car­riages — big win­dows you could drop down and a loco hauled train.  Seemed rather odd for an inter­na­tional ser­vice but then the Nor­we­gi­ans and the Swedes have a fam­ously arms-length rela­tion­ship.  Lots of lakes on the Nor­we­gian side of the bor­der — pic­tur­esque as ever — pity about the num­ber of trees between the track and the water some­times.  South­ern Sweden quite flat. Rail entry into Stock­holm crosses the har­bour on a low bridge — sud­denly spectacular.