Pågatågen is an interurban railway system in Skåne County, Sweden, and is run by Skånetrafiken, the regional public transportation authority. The trains are operated by the contractor VR Sverige (owned by Finnish state operator VR Group). The network has 72 stations, of which 8 are in the Malmö Urban Area: Malmö C, Triangeln, Hyllie, Svågertorp, Persborg, Rosengård, Östervärn and Burlöv and 4 in the Helsingborg Urban Area: Helsingborg C, Ramlösa, Rydebäck and Ödåkra. Påg is a dialectal Scanian word for 'boy', and is used to indicate that the trains are local/regional, and tåg is Swedish for train. The trains consist of purple-coloured electric multiple units of the X61 model. The trains are named after famous local people, either real or fictional. History The first Pågatåg, an X11 EMU named Bombi Bitt (named after the character written by Fritiof Nilsson Piraten), left Malmö Central Station on January 9, 1983. Local trains in Sweden had historically been provided by state operator SJ, but opposition from director general Lars Petersson to Scanian local traffic resulted in a local federation of Scanian municipalities (SSK) seeking to begin providing their own rail services. Services were originally operated with SJ brown multiple units from the 1930s, and by 1983 trains from Malmö served Lund, Landskrona, Teckomatorp and Helsingborg. With the arrival of new and purple X11 units from ASEA the name and brand Pågatågen took shape. A naming contest had been held by the local radio channel Radio Malmöhus, and a set of male names had been chosen for the series, with the trains also gaining the name 'Pågatågen' due to this fact. In 1988 responsibility for Pågatågen was transferred to Malmöhus County, as the expansion of services meant that Pågatågen had outgrown the abilities of SSK. With the merger of Malmöhus and Kristianstad counties into Skåne County responsibility was again transferred to Skånetrafiken, and services were extended into what was Kristianstad County, with services to Helsingborg extended to Ängelholm in 1999, services to Ystad extended to Tomelilla and Simrishamn in 2003 and services to Hässleholm and Kristianstad itself starting in 2007. As the new train sets of the X61 class were being planned, names of women were to be used for the trains for the first time. These trains were playfully called 'Tösatåg' by both Skånetrafiken and the press, 'tös' meaning 'girl' in the Scanian dialect. In December 2009 the first of the new X61