European route E6 (Norwegian: Europavei 6, Swedish: Europaväg 6, or simply E6) is the main north–south thoroughfare through Norway as well as the west coast of Sweden.

It is 3,056 km (1,899 mi) long and runs from the southern tip of Sweden at Trelleborg, into Norway and through almost all of the country north to the Arctic Circle and Nordkapp.

Beyond Trondheim, the E6 meets Stjørdalshalsen, Verdalsøra, Steinkjer, Grong, Mosjøen, Mo i Rana, then over the Saltfjellet mountains.

It then runs through on via Narvik, Setermoen, Nordkjosbotn, Skibotn, and Alta to Olderfjord, where European route E69 continues north towards Nordkapp.

The E6, meanwhile, turns south towards Lakselv and Karasjok, then runs on the west bank of the Anarjohka, which forms the border with Finland.

The northern half of the road, north of Trondheim, is also often fairly curvy, making high speeds a possible safety hazard.

[4] Because the road is the main artery through the country, cyclists and leisure travellers avoid the southern sections owing to the excessive traffic.

[6] Without prior registration, the cost of a straight trip from Svinesund to Kirkenes, with a petrol or diesel car weighing less than 3500 kilos, remaining only on E6, was NOK 1072 (about €90,45) with rush hour fares included, by the end of October 2024.

Most toll calculation apps, tools, or websites will not allow you to set out a road trip that keeps you driving on E6 all along the way.

Scammers have been reported to jump on the bandwagon, by sending fake toll bills, to obtain credit card information.

NRK also spoke with Germans who had not registered their camper van, because they were told that they would get a letter with a payment request sent home into their mailbox.

Norway was trying to strike deals on enforcing payment of road tolls with individual countries, to compensate for the missing EETS regulation.

E6 was numbered RV50 between Oslo and Kirkenes in 1931, to tie the north and south of Norway more closely together, even though many road sections were still missing links.

The E6 road was given the number E47 (but not signposted) in the new system on most of the Scandinavian part (Helsingborg–Olderfjord), and E6 only for the northernmost 460 km (290 mi) (from Olderfjord in Finnmark).

This project [18] is planned to be 106 kilometres (66 mi) long and it will go from the junction with Norwegian National Road 3 at Ulsberg in the south to Åsen north of Trondheim Airport, Værnes, set to be finished in 2027/2028.

[24] NRK came back to Finneidfjord 20 years later, interviewed people who were involved in the landslide and wrote an article to commemorate the disaster.

On 20 December 2006, a large landslide occurred in Småröd, just south of Munkedal, in Bohuslän, in Sweden, in connection with the construction of a motorway at the site which also affected the old road.

[28] On 31 May 2022, a fairly short river bridge near Badderen was on the brink of collapse due to an unstable support column that was about to be washed away, as a result of erosion.

On 23 September 2023, a large landslide destroyed a section of about 700 metres (2,300 ft) of the highway, near Stenungsund, north of Gothenburg.

Shortly before King Carl XVI Gustaf arrived to cut the ribbon, on 3 July 2024, and declare the route reopened, a truckload of rotting salmon was cleared away from the site of the landslide.

Police have closed both Nordland Line and E6,[48] because there were some fears that the locomotive and one or more train cars could slide further down the embankment,[43] or more rocks would fall.

A local couple started to use their fishing boat to transport people from the village over the fjord, past the train wreck.

Postal service Posten announced on Wednesday 30 October 2024 that letters and packages were delayed, due to many closed railways and roads.

[55] Storm Jakob, which triggered red alerts south of Trondheim,[56] has aggravated the landslide risk [57] and delayed the removal of the crashed locomotive at Finneidfjord.

[61] The E12 detour road was closed again on Thursday 31 October 2024,[62] after a car with three Norwegians crashed into the back of a stopped truck, on Blå Vägen (E12), between Bredviken and Kåtaviken, in Sweden.

[64] [65] [51] With each announcement, reopening of E6 was further delayed, due to a moving mountain slope,[66] dangerously high winds, rockfall and other safety issues.

[50] BaneNOR chose to continuously update their existing press statement from Monday 28 October 2024 onwards, making previous versions [67] disappear.

[68] By 17h49 (5h49 PM) on Sunday 3 November 2024 BaneNOR announced that weather conditions unexpectedly had allowed them to lift one of the two train cars from the embankment above the E6, which took about 30 minutes, but as the wind was picking up, it was deemed unsafe to continue the salvage operation.

Statens Vegvesen had planned for E6 to remain closed until Thursday,[70] but with the train wreck gone, E6 was reopened for traffic under guidance on Wednesday morning, 6 November 2024.