Copenhagen-Ringsted Line

København – Ringsted
Overview
Type	Main line
Termini	Copenhagen Central Ringsted
Operation
Opened	2018?
Operator(s)	DSB
Technical
Line length	ca. 120 km
No. of tracks	Double
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in)
Electrification	25 kV 50 Hz AC
Operating speed	250 km/h"Banedanmark: København-Ringsted". http://www.bane.dk/visBanearbejde.asp?artikelID=11718. Retrieved 2011-07-26. </ref>

Two solutions for the Copenhagen-Ringsted line.

The Copenhagen-Ringsted Lineis a future railway on Sealand, Denmark, connecting Copenhagen via Køge with Ringsted. Construction is scheduled to start in 2013, and the line should then activated in 2018.

The current railway from Copenhagen to Ringsted (part of the Copenhagen–Fredericia/Taulov Line) is congested, and forms a bottleneck for which two solutions have been proposed.

In March 2007, Danish parliament decided^[1] to restrict research to two solutions, the so-called 'greenfield solution' and the 'fifth solution'. The fifth solution was rejected in late 2009^[2], although it would have been cheaper.^[3]

Projected time until completion was 8 years from 2009, of which construction will take 5 years.^[4]

Main aim of the greenfield solution is to deviate all trains to the new line which do not service local destinations between Copenhagen and Roskilde or between Roskilde and Ringsted. This way, local traffic can expand on the existing railway, and travel on the new line allows travel times between Copenhagen and Køge, where a station will be constructed at Køge North, to be reduced by 15 minutes. ^[5] Total capacity of the new line will be 24 trains per hour per direction, but this number is far larger than the current capacity of Copenhagen Central Station, which is ca. 17 trains per hour in total.^[6]

Trajectory

The line will follow the motorway E20 (shared on the section north of Køge with E47 and E55).^[7]

Sources

1. ^ retsinformation.dk - "Lov om projektering af jernbaneanlæg København-Ringsted", 21 March 2007 (Danish)
2. ^ Decision, October 2009 (Danish)
3. ^ Trafikstyrelsen, September 2008 - København-Ringsted projektet, Miljøredegørelse 1 - høringsudgave, p. 79, ISBN 87-91726-26-3 (Danish)
4. ^ Trafikstyrelsen, October 2005 - "Strategianalyse København - Ringsted" , p. 44 (Danish)
5. ^ Trafikstyrelsen, oktober 2005 - "Strategianalyse København - Ringsted", p. 13
6. ^ Arbejdsbevælgelsen Erhvervsråd, 24 March 2006 - "Jernbaneprojekt København-Ringsted", p. 6 (Danish)
7. ^ Trajectory