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Railways through Europe |
maps and interoperabilty |
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border lines Denmark - Sweden
København - Malmö (electrified)
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The Øresund fixed link, via a tunnel and a bridge, between Denmark and Sweden
opened on 2 July 2000. Electrification and signalling standards are of Danish
standards. Shift to the Swedish electrification system is made at Lernacken,
where the bridge begins on the SE side.
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Change between Swedish and Danish signal
systems is on the (artificial) island Peberholm on the Danish side, where
the bridge ends and the tunnel part starts. A flyover decreasing contrains in operation is currently under construction.
Dual-frequency electric units and locomotives work passenger and freight
trains.
Traffic mainly consist of "Öresund trains", running basically
Helsingör - København - Kastrup airport - Malmö - Lund - Helsingborg
with extensions to Kalmar (on Swedish east coast) and Göteborg (and other).
Most of those trains are cooperated by DSB and Skånetrafiken, a regional
operator. Trains are of the "rubber nose" type, 3-car EMU's. Swedish type
X31K, danish type ET.
DSB operates trains between København and Ystad, connecting there
with a ferry to the Danish island of Bornholm. Passengers to/from Bornholm
can use DSB domestic tickets, but these are not valid for break of journey
in Sweden. These trains do not call at Malmö, but reverse at Fosieby, the
direct curve onto the Ystad line not yet having been built. Same trains as
mentioned above are used.
Swedish X2000 HST to Stockholm are run by SJ, and "Linx" to Göteborg
(same rolling stock as X2000) is cooperated by SJ and NSB (but it will
change soon). The train type is X2K and X2NK ("K" are allowed in Denmark, "N"
are allowed in Norway).
Freight is mostly run by Danish » class EG
locos, but probably operators will join.
In December 2007 Railion and the Swedish rail freight company Green Cargo founded
a joint rail production company named Railion Scandinavia A/S, after starting their
cooperation in 2006. New Class 185 multi-system locomotives were scheduled to go
into operation starting in winter 2007/2008. Railion and Green Cargo are jointly
investing in 23 new multi-frequency locomotives. The locomotives are provided with
train control systems and security certificates for all three countries.
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used stock |
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ET
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X31K
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X2K (København - Stockholm),
X2NK (København - Göteborg, from 8. January 2005)
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| Linx |
X2NK (København - Göteborg, until 20. December 2004)
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| Railion |
» class EG
185 (Hamburg-Maschen - Malmö, from winter 2007/2008)
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thanks to Peter Faber
(last update: December 2007) |
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Various pictures from manmade island Peberholm and the connecting bridge.
© 2004 Jonas Strömblad |
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page last updated: 20. December 2007 |
©1998-2008 Thorsten Büker |
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