Frank Clarke wrote:

    > We'll be in Scandinavia the latter part of June. At some point we're
    > going to travel from Bergen via Oslo to Goteborg, Sweden. I'm taking
    > it on faith that such a trip is possible because none of the websites
    > seem to be aware of anything outside their individual national
    > borders.

Indeed, the German Deutsche Bahn site can't find a connection from
Bergen to Goteborg. I'm astonished.

    > We actually want to go to Trollhattan which I believe is 'on the way',
    > but I was planning to go to Goteborg and take a local train back up to
    > Trollhattan.
    > Question: Am I likely to be able to cut my trip short by 2 hours (by
    > getting off at Trollhattan) or is the original plan still best?

I was able to find something when I broke up your journey in two. For
Bergen-Oslo, look at the Norwegian site at http://www.nsb.no/ . For
Oslo-Goteborg, look at the Swedish site at http://www.sj.se/ . It seems
that some trains do go from Oslo via Trollhattan to Goteborg (line 100
in Sweden, if I'm reading the map correctly).

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Yves Bellefeuille wrote:
    > Frank Clarke wrote:
    >
    >
    >>We'll be in Scandinavia the latter part of June. At some point we're
    >>going to travel from Bergen via Oslo to Goteborg, Sweden. I'm taking
    >>it on faith that such a trip is possible because none of the websites
    >>seem to be aware of anything outside their individual national
    >>borders.
    >
    >
    > Indeed, the German Deutsche Bahn site can't find a connection from
    > Bergen to Goteborg. I'm astonished.

Planning Bergen - Goteborg is no problem on the Bahn site. Just make
sure you pick the right Bergen, and spell "Goteborg" correctly...
Just tried and it gave me two connections...


Krist


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[email protected] (Yves Bellefeuille) schreef:

    >Frank Clarke wrote:
    >> We'll be in Scandinavia the latter part of June. At some point we're
    >> going to travel from Bergen via Oslo to Goteborg, Sweden. I'm taking
    >> it on faith that such a trip is possible because none of the websites
    >> seem to be aware of anything outside their individual national
    >> borders.
    >Indeed, the German Deutsche Bahn site can't find a connection from
    >Bergen to Goteborg. I'm astonished.

The summer timetable in Scandinavia starts in the middle of June and
it looks like the summer timetable has not yet been uploaded to the DB
site. It does show connections in early June. Try a date in early June
to get an idea of the train times.

Groeten, Siebrand