It continues as the 106-kilometre (66 mi) long Meråker Line through Norway to Hell Station and onwards to Trondheim.

SJ AB operates night trains with sleeping cars from Storlien or Duved to either Stockholm, Gothenburg or Malmö.

From 1875 the Swedish State Railways were building Norrland Crossline, which opened 1879 between Torpshammar and Östersund.

Before 1881 it had no connection to the rest of Sweden (only steamboat from Sundsvall), until the railway between Stockholm and Ånge was finished.

In November 2013 the railway had to be closed near the border because of the high risk of landslide, opened again February 2015.