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Ostlänken (‘the Eastern Link’) is a planned high-speed railway in Sweden, intended to run from Södertälje (just south of Stockholm) to Linköping, where the routes to Göteborg and Malmö/Copenhagen diverge.
The time plan is to start building around year 2015–2019 and have it finished about five years later. The construction cost for the new 160-kilometre railway is calculated to be 24 billion SEK. A detailed plan from the Swedish rail administration was published in December 2008.
The railway will allow train speeds of 320 kilometres per hour (200 mph). Long-distance trains would call at Stockholm Central Station and Södertälje Syd before joining the new line, on which there would be an intermediate stop at Norrköping, and reach Linköping about 40 minutes faster than by the existing line. Between Södertälje and Norrköping, regional trains would make additional stops at Vagnhärad and Skavsta Airport, and make a brief detour onto the existing line to Nyköping.
In a little more distant future, a new railway connecting Linköping-Göteborg is planned, called Götalandsbanan. Together, the Ostlänken and Götalandsbanan railways would allow trains to travel between Stockholm-Göteborg in under two hours.
External links
- Official website (in Swedish)
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