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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Travel
Nicky Gardner

Rail route of the month: tracking St Olav from Sweden to Norway

Trondheim is the final stop on the St Olav’s Way pilgrimage route.
Trondheim is the final stop on the St Olav’s Way pilgrimage route. Photograph: rudi1976/Alamy

Religious purists probably assert that a pilgrimage requires walking rather than taking a train. I wasn’t inclined to spend three weeks walking to Trondheim. So I decided to give the train a shot, showing up one morning at Sundsvall railway station in Sweden for a solo three-day pilgrimage by rail.

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