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Lidingöbanan ("The Lindingö Line") is a light rail

Light rail

Light rail or light rail transit is a form of urban rail public transportation that generally has a lower capacity and lower speed than heavy rail and metro systems, but higher capacity and higher speed than traditional street-running tram systems...

system in Stockholm

Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital and the largest city of Sweden and constitutes the most populated urban area in Scandinavia. Stockholm is the most populous city in Sweden, with a population of 851,155 in the municipality , 1.37 million in the urban area , and around 2.1 million in the metropolitan area...

, Sweden

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

, between Ropsten

Ropsten

Ropsten is a cape at the eastern part of Stockholm mainland at the inner part of Stockholm archipelago in Sweden. Two bridges named Lidingöbron extend from Ropsten over to the island of Lidingö. Ropsten area is located between Hjorthagen and the Stockholm city main port Värtahamnen...

and Gåshaga brygga

Gåshaga brygga

Gåshaga brygga is the eastern terminus of the Lidingöbanan light rail in Lidingö east of central Stockholm, Sweden. It is possible to interchange with the Waxholmsbolaget archipelago boats at this stop....

, going in the south half of the Lidingö

Lidingö

Lidingö is an island in the inner Stockholm archipelago, located north east of central Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. It is also the seat of Lidingö Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden with 44,000 inhabitants in 2011....

island.

Lidingöbanan has its origins in the Stockholm-Södra Lidingöns Järnväg (Stockholm-Southern Lidingö Railway), proposed by inventor Gustaf Dalén

Gustaf Dalén

Nils Gustaf Dalén was a Swedish Nobel Laureate and industrialist, the founder of the AGA company and inventor of the AGA cooker and the Dalén light...

. Public transportation on Lidingöbanan has always been provided using tram

Tram

A tram is a passenger rail vehicle which runs on tracks along public urban streets and also sometimes on separate rights of way. It may also run between cities and/or towns , and/or partially grade separated even in the cities...

cars, but in the past Lidingöbanan had carried goods traffic as well. At its largest, Lidingöbanan extended to Humlegården

Humlegården

Humlegården is a major park in Östermalm in Stockholm. It is the location of the Royal Library and in the centre of the park is a large statue of Carl von Linné, better known as Linnaeus.- History :...

on the Stockholm side through Stockholms Spårvägar

Stockholms Spårvägar

AB Stockholms Spårvägar , was a company founded in 1915 and owned by the City of Stockholm to coordinate and operate public transportation within the City...

’s tramway network, and had connectivity to the Värtabanan railway track. There was also traffic on a track on the north side of the Lidingö island that terminated in Kyrkviken, but that line was shut down in 1971. The Lidingö town centre is presently accessible only by bus. Lidingöbanan formally became part of SL

Storstockholms Lokaltrafik

Storstockholms Lokaltrafik AB, , commonly referred to as SL, is the organisation running all of the land based public transport systems in Stockholm County....

's public transportation network in 1972.

Lidingöbanan was legally a railway until August 2008, when it was reclassified by the Swedish railway inspectorate (Järnvägsstyrelsen). Passenger service has, however, always been provided with tramcars, that before 1967 continued onto Stockholm streets, as mentioned above. The electrical infrastructure (overhead wire) is of tram type.

The current cars (type A30/A30B and maneuver trams B30/B30B) are all over fifty years old, and remains from the period (1940s–50s) when the metro was only partially built and these parts were run with trams adopted for faster bi-directional traffic. There are plans to eventually replace, with modern light rail

Light rail

, cars such as the Flexity Swift

Flexity Swift

The Flexity Swift tram is a family of urban and inter-urban light-rail vehicles manufactured by Bombardier Transportation for a wide number of customers across Europe...

models now in use on Tvärbanan

Tvärbanan

Tvärbanan is a light rail line in the suburbs of Stockholm, Sweden. Its name literally translated into English is Crossways line. It links together many bus and rail lines crossways through its connections with the southern and western subway branches of the Stockholm Metro and the Stockholm...

and Nockebybanan

Nockebybanan

Nockebybanan is a tram line between Nockeby and Alvik in the western suburbs of Stockholm, Sweden. The long line is part of the Storstockholms Lokaltrafik public transport network, and connects with the Stockholm Metro and Tvärbanan light rail at Alvik...

, or the Alstom

Alstom

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Citadis

The Citadis is a low-floor tram built by Alstom in La Rochelle, France, and Barcelona, Spain. 1,140 Citadis are currently in use in 28 cities, among others: Bordeaux, Grenoble, Lyon, Montpellier, Orléans, the Paris area, and Barcelona, Dublin, Gdańsk, Katowice, Adelaide, Melbourne, Jerusalem and...

(one vehicle was tested in September 2007).

Lines

Lidingöbanan has a single line with fourteen stations, going from Ropsten

Ropsten

in northeastern Stockholm to Gåshaga brygga

Gåshaga brygga

in southeastern Lidingö.
At Ropsten there is an interchange with Stockholm Metro

Stockholm Metro

The Stockholm Metro is a metro system in Stockholm, Sweden. The first line opened in 1950, and today the system has 100 stations in use, of which 47 are underground and 53 above ground. There are seven lines numbered from 10 to 19, in three groups identified by a color: the Green, Red and Blue lines...

red line 13, and at Gåshaga brygga one can change to Waxholmsbolaget

Waxholmsbolaget

Waxholms Ångfartygs AB, commonly referred to as Waxholmsbolaget, is a shipping company that is owned by Stockholm county council and is responsible for the seaborne public transport in Stockholm archipelago and Stockholm harbour...

archipelago

Archipelago

An archipelago , sometimes called an island group, is a chain or cluster of islands. The word archipelago is derived from the Greek ἄρχι- – arkhi- and πέλαγος – pélagos through the Italian arcipelago...

boats.

At present, there are plans to connect the line with Språrväg City, which is being built in central Stockholm in the 2010's.

Line	Stretch	Length	Stops
21	Ropsten Ropsten Ropsten is a cape at the eastern part of Stockholm mainland at the inner part of Stockholm archipelago in Sweden. Two bridges named Lidingöbron extend from Ropsten over to the island of Lidingö. Ropsten area is located between Hjorthagen and the Stockholm city main port Värtahamnen... – Gåshaga brygga Gåshaga brygga Gåshaga brygga is the eastern terminus of the Lidingöbanan light rail in Lidingö east of central Stockholm, Sweden. It is possible to interchange with the Waxholmsbolaget archipelago boats at this stop....	9.2 km	14

External links

PDF map of all SL rail lines, Lidingöbanan is L21 in middle right section
Storstockholms Lokaltrafik (Stockholm Transport) - Official site (English)
Storstockholms Lokaltrafik (Stockholm Transport) - Official site (Swedish)
Järnväg.net - Lidingöbanan (Swedish)

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