Oresund Railway
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Oresund Line is a railway between Copenhagen
in Denmark
and Malmö
in Sweden
via the Oresund Bridge
. On the Swedish side the railway infrastructure is managed by Swedish Transport Administration, on the Danish side the railway infrastructure is managed by Banedanmark
.
The railway line continues from the Continental Line south of Malmö and heads west passing over the Oresund Bridge on the lower section, the artificial island Peberholm
, under Copenhagen Airport
to Copenhagen Central Station. In Malmö, the City Tunnel has been built to connect the railway directly to Malmö Central Station
, without having to operate it as a terminal station
.
Since 11 January 2009, Oresundtrain
s are operated by DSBFirst
between Copenhagen and Malmö, with connections to Gothenburg
, Kalmar
and Karlskrona
. On the Danish side, many trains continue northwards on the Coast Line to Helsingør. DSB operates Oresundtrains to Ystad
with ferry connection to Bornholm
. SJ
operates X 2000
high-speed trains between Stockholm
, Malmö and Copenhagen, and Oresundtrains between Gothenburg and Copenhagen. Freight train
s are operated by Railion
using EG locomotives.
and Zealand with a bridge had been raised throughout the entire 20th century, but in 1991, a company was created to start the work. Construction of the Oresund Bridge and Oresund Railway started in 1995 and was completed in 2000.
and Triangeln
. It saves one minute for passengers to Malmö C, and about 15 to 20 minutes for passengers to points north thereof.
trains operated throughout Sweden by SJ.
Also, on double tracks in Denmark, trains run on the right hand side and in Sweden on the left. On the Oresund Line, trains runs on right, changing side at the Malmö terminus station.
X2000 trains only stop at Malmö C, Copenhagen Airport / Kastrup and Copenhagen H. Oresundtrains stop at all stations.
Copenhagen
Copenhagen is the capital and largest city of Denmark, with an urban population of 1,199,224 and a metropolitan population of 1,930,260 . With the completion of the transnational Øresund Bridge in 2000, Copenhagen has become the centre of the increasingly integrating Øresund Region...
in Denmark
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...
and Malmö
Malmö
Malmö , in the southernmost province of Scania, is the third most populous city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg.Malmö is the seat of Malmö Municipality and the capital of Skåne County...
in 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....
via the Oresund Bridge
Oresund Bridge
The Øresund or Öresund Bridge is a combined twin-track railway and dual carriageway bridge-tunnel across the Øresund strait.The bridge connects Sweden and Denmark, and it is the longest road and rail bridge in Europe. The Øresund Bridge also connects two major Metropolitan Areas: those of the...
. On the Swedish side the railway infrastructure is managed by Swedish Transport Administration, on the Danish side the railway infrastructure is managed by Banedanmark
Banedanmark
Banedanmark is a Danish company responsible for maintenance and traffic control of most of the Danish railway network...
.
The railway line continues from the Continental Line south of Malmö and heads west passing over the Oresund Bridge on the lower section, the artificial island Peberholm
Peberholm
Peberholm , Swedish Pepparholm, is a small artificial island located in the Danish part of the Øresund. It forms part of Tårnby municipality. It was created as part of the Øresund Bridge connecting Denmark with Sweden...
, under Copenhagen Airport
Copenhagen Airport
Copenhagen Airport is the main international airport serving Copenhagen, Denmark and the Oresund Region. It is located on the island of Amager, south of Copenhagen city centre, and west of Malmö city centre on the other side of the Oresund Bridge. The airport lies mainly in the municipality...
to Copenhagen Central Station. In Malmö, the City Tunnel has been built to connect the railway directly to Malmö Central Station
Malmö Central Station
Malmö Central Station is a terminus railway station on the Southern Main Line in Malmö, Sweden opened in 1876. It serves approximately 55 000 passengers every day, making it the second busiest in Sweden behind Stockholm Central Station-History:...
, without having to operate it as a terminal station
Terminal Station
Terminal Station is a 1953 film by Italian director Vittorio De Sica. It tells the story of the love affair between an Italian man and an American woman. The film was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.-Production:...
.
Since 11 January 2009, Oresundtrain
Oresundtrain
Oresundtrain or Øresundståg is a regional rail network serving the Oresund Region. The train consists of multiple units manufactured by Bombardier Transportation in Kalmar, previously known as Kalmar Verkstad and lately in Hennigsdorf by LEW Hennigsdorf...
s are operated by DSBFirst
DSBFirst
DSBFirst is a Danish-British railway company that since January 2009 is an operator on the Oresundtrains, serving Denmark and southern Sweden. The company is an alliance between Danish DSB and British FirstGroup, its headquarters being located in Malmö, southern Sweden. From december 11 2011...
between Copenhagen and Malmö, with connections to Gothenburg
Gothenburg
Gothenburg is the second-largest city in Sweden and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated on the west coast of Sweden, the city proper has a population of 519,399, with 549,839 in the urban area and total of 937,015 inhabitants in the metropolitan area...
, Kalmar
Kalmar
Kalmar is a city in Småland in the south-east of Sweden, situated by the Baltic Sea. It had 62,767 inhabitants in 2010 and is the seat of Kalmar Municipality. It is also the capital of Kalmar County, which comprises 12 municipalities with a total of 233,776 inhabitants .From the thirteenth to the...
and Karlskrona
Karlskrona
Karlskrona is a locality and the seat of Karlskrona Municipality, Blekinge County, Sweden with 35,212 inhabitants in 2010. It is also the capital of Blekinge County. Karlskrona is known as Sweden's only baroque city and is host to Sweden's only remaining naval base and the headquarters of the...
. On the Danish side, many trains continue northwards on the Coast Line to Helsingør. DSB operates Oresundtrains to Ystad
Ystad
Ystad is a "locality", or town, and the seat of Ystad Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden, with 17,286 inhabitants .Settlement dates back to the 11th century and the town has become a busy ferryport, local administrative centre and tourist attraction...
with ferry connection to Bornholm
Bornholm
Bornholm is a Danish island in the Baltic Sea located to the east of the rest of Denmark, the south of Sweden, and the north of Poland. The main industries on the island include fishing, arts and crafts like glass making and pottery using locally worked clay, and dairy farming. Tourism is...
. SJ
SJ AB
SJ is a government-owned passenger train operator in Sweden. SJ was created in 2000, out of the public transport division of Statens Järnvägar, when the former government agency was divided into six separate government-owned limited companies.-Overview:SJ's operations fall broadly into subsidised...
operates X 2000
X 2000
X 2000 is the brand name of Sweden's tilting 200 km/h high-speed train class X2, which was constructed by Kalmar Verkstad in Kalmar, Sweden and operated by SJ. It was launched in 1990 as a first-class only train with a meal included in the ticket price, and free use of the train's fax machine...
high-speed trains between 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...
, Malmö and Copenhagen, and Oresundtrains between Gothenburg and Copenhagen. Freight train
Freight train
A freight train or goods train is a group of freight cars or goods wagons hauled by one or more locomotives on a railway, ultimately transporting cargo between two points as part of the logistics chain...
s are operated by Railion
Railion
DB Schenker Rail is a European railway cargo carrier. The company was formed from the freight operating section of the Deutsche Bahn DB Cargo with the addition of various European rail freight operating companies.In December 2007 Railion became part of the DB Schenker logistics group, itself a...
using EG locomotives.
History
Plans for connecting ScaniaScania
Scania is the southernmost of the 25 traditional non-administrative provinces of Sweden, constituting a peninsula on the southern tip of the Scandinavian peninsula, and some adjacent islands. The modern administrative subdivision Skåne County is almost, but not totally, congruent with the...
and Zealand with a bridge had been raised throughout the entire 20th century, but in 1991, a company was created to start the work. Construction of the Oresund Bridge and Oresund Railway started in 1995 and was completed in 2000.
City Tunnel
Since December 2010, Oresundtrains go through the new City Tunnel in Malmö, with the new stations HyllieHyllie railway station
Hyllie Station is a new railway station south of central Malmö, Sweden. The stationed opened in 2010 as a part of the newly built City Tunnel along with Triangeln railway station and a new underground part of Malmö Central Station....
and Triangeln
Triangeln railway station
Triangeln Station, , is a new railway station in central Malmö, Sweden, located by Sankt Johannes church close to the neighbourhood of Möllevången and Pildammsparken. The station opened in 2010 as a part of the newly built Citytunneln along with Hyllie railway station and a new underground part of...
. It saves one minute for passengers to Malmö C, and about 15 to 20 minutes for passengers to points north thereof.
Border technicalities
One of the challenges with the line was incompatibility between the railway electrification between Denmark and Sweden. Denmark uses while Sweden uses . The signalling system is also different between the two countries. The problem was solved by switching the signalling system on Peberholm, while the entire bridge uses the Danish electrical system. All the trains that operate on the line must therefore be equipped with dual electrical adaption systems, and dual signalling system, including a minority of the X2X2 train
X2 is the Swedish high speed train system operated by the operator SJ under the X 2000 brand name. It has a top commercial speed of 200 km/h, but has reached 276 km/h in a test...
trains operated throughout Sweden by SJ.
Also, on double tracks in Denmark, trains run on the right hand side and in Sweden on the left. On the Oresund Line, trains runs on right, changing side at the Malmö terminus station.
Line
Sweden-
- Fosieby (0 / 38 km) – line leaves Continental Line
- Malmö South StationSvågertorpSvågertorp is a neighbourhood of Malmö, Sweden. It contains the Svågertorp railway station....
(4 / 34 km) - Lernacken (10 / 28 km) – Enter the Oresund BridgeOresund BridgeThe Øresund or Öresund Bridge is a combined twin-track railway and dual carriageway bridge-tunnel across the Øresund strait.The bridge connects Sweden and Denmark, and it is the longest road and rail bridge in Europe. The Øresund Bridge also connects two major Metropolitan Areas: those of the...
, switch of electric current. Denmark - PeberholmPeberholmPeberholm , Swedish Pepparholm, is a small artificial island located in the Danish part of the Øresund. It forms part of Tårnby municipality. It was created as part of the Øresund Bridge connecting Denmark with Sweden...
(21 / 17 km) – Change of signaling system - Copenhagen Airport, Kastrup StationCopenhagen Airport, Kastrup StationCopenhagen Airport, Kastrup Station is a railway station in Tårnby, Denmark, served by DSB’s regional trains including the Oresundtrain network. The nearby Lufthavnen metro station is served by the Copenhagen Metro’s line M2. The reconstructed railway station opened 2007-09-28, and Metro service...
(29 /9 km) - Tårnby StationTårnby StationTårnby Station is a railway station designed by KHR arkitekter and is situated in Tårnby, a suburb to Copenhagen, Denmark. The Tårnby Station opened in the year 2000 when the Oresund Railway was inaugurated.See also Oresundtrain....
(31 / 7 km) - Ørestad StationØrestad stationØrestad Station is a railway and Metro station situated in the middle of the new city of Ørestad in Copenhagen, Denmark. The M1 and regional trains to Copenhagen Airport, the city centre, and Malmö are served from the station. It is in fare zone 3....
(32 / 6 km) – MetroCopenhagen MetroCopenhagen Metro is a rapid transit system serving Copenhagen, Frederiksberg and Tårnby in Denmark. The system opened between 2002 and 2007, and has two lines, M1 and M2. The driverless light metro supplements the larger S-train rapid transit system, and is integrated with DSB local trains and...
crosses the Oresund Railway - Copenhagen Central Station (38 / 0 km) - terminus
X2000 trains only stop at Malmö C, Copenhagen Airport / Kastrup and Copenhagen H. Oresundtrains stop at all stations.