Stockholm – Örebro railway line

Stockholm – Örebro
Kolbäck station
Route length:	277 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	15 kV 16 2 / 3 Hz  ~
Maximum slope :	25.0  ‰
Top speed:	Bandel 404 (Karlberg) –Sundbyberg: 140 km / h Bandel 445 (Sundbyberg) –Kungsängen: 200 km / h Bandel 444 (Kungsängen) - (Västerås norra): 200 km / h Bandel 349 Västerås norra – Kolbäck: 200 km / h Bandel 350 (Kolbäck) –Jädersbruk: 200 km / h Bandel 354 (Jädersbruk) - (Hovsta): 200 km / h Bandel 348: Tillberga– (Västerås norra) 130 km / h Bandel 443 (Tillberga) - (Sala) 130 km /H
Train control :	ATC
Dual track :	Stockholm – Kolbäck Valskog – Arboga Ökna – Alväng four-track: Barkarby – Kallhäll
Operating points and routes
Legend to Mjölby 205 Örebro C Hovsta Frövi bypass, PV only (since 1997) Frövi to Storvik after Gävle C Vanneboda Ullersätter Fellingsbro (until 1996) Ålsäng Jädersbruk 159 Arboga Valskog to Södertälje syd 142 Köping from Oxelösund 127 Kolbäck Railway line Kolbäck – Ludvika to Ludvika 117 Thing tuna 107 Västerås C Västerås N. Bypass Tillberga (since 1996) von Ängelsberg (until 1993) Tillberga (PV until 2009) Sala – Tillberga railway line to Sala (since 1996) Tortuna old route (until 1996) Ullbrotunnel (since 1996) 316 m Enköping – Runhallen railway from Heby from Enköpings hamn 72 Enkoping Railway line Uppsala – Enköping to Uppsala Grillby old route Ekolsund (until 1995) Ekolsund (until around 1971) Ekolsund Kräga Nyckelby 44 Bålsta Håbo tunnel 411 m 35 Bro 26th Kungsangen old route Stäket (until 2001) Svartvik tunnel 537 m Dalkarlstunnel 109 m Stäksund tunnel 132 m Stäksund Stäkettunnel 427 m Stäket (until 2001) Trappeberg tunnel 176 m Båghus tunnel 574 m 21st Kallhall 17th Jakobsberg 14th Barkarby Industrial line to Lunda, until 1970 to Lövsta 11 Spånga Industrial line to Ulvsunda 6th Sundbyberg from Sundsvall from Hagalund / Hagalund depot Tomteboda to Citybanan to Värtan 2 Karlberg (until July 2017) 0 Stockholm C to Gothenburg C

Since 1990 as Mälaren Line designated railway line Stockholm-Örebro is a largely two-track, electrified railway in Sweden . It runs north of Lake Mälaren from Stockholm via Enköping , Västerås , Köping and Arboga to Örebro . Today's line consists of the former private Tomteboda – Tillberga – Köping rail lines operated by Stockholm – Västerås – Bergslagens Järnvägar (SWB) and Köping – Arboga (Arboga-Köpings Järnväg) and the Arboga – Frövi section built by the Köping – Hults Järnväg company Örebro.

In 1990, the then Swedish railway authority Banverket carried out an extensive renaming of the Swedish railway network without taking the historical background into account. As part of this renaming, the route described here was given the name Mälarbanan . The line ribbon therefore only shows the changes since 1990. Since the renaming, the old Frövi – Örebro section is no longer counted as part of the Mälarbana, but rather as part of the Godsstråket genom Bergslagen line .

history

prehistory

Compared to other European countries, Sweden started building railways late . In 1854 the Swedish Reichstag decided to set up a network of state-financed so-called main railways. Additional routes should be financed and built by the private sector. According to the Reichstag resolution , the route from Stockholm to Gothenburg, known as Västra stambanan , should run as short as possible and thus south of Lake Mälaren and bypass the important city of Örebro . As a result, several private initiatives were started to develop the northern Mälarenufer, Örebro and the central Swedish mining area in the Bergslagen region by rail routes and to connect them both with Stockholm and with a port on Lake Vänern .

construction

Örebro – Arboga

The Örebro – Ervalla section was opened together with the Nora – Ervalla railway on March 5, 1856, making it part of the first railway line in Sweden operated by locomotives. On August 29, 1857 the Ervalla – Arboga section followed. The originally planned extension beyond Örebro to the southwest to the port of Hult on the east bank of Lake Vänern , which gave the route and the company its name, was never built.

Arboga – Köping

In July 1866, the Arboga-Köpings Järnvägsaktiebolag company was founded. Not all shares were subscribed to by private investors. Finally, Köping – Hults Järnväg bought the remaining shares, as their shareholders were very interested in the construction of the line to Köping and the possible connection to the SWB line. Construction of the Arboga – Köping section began in the same year and was opened in 1867.

Tomteboda – Tillboda – Köping

After it was clear that there would be no state railway line on the north bank of Mälaren, the Stockholm-Westerås-Bergslagens Jernvägs-Aktiebolag (SWB) company was founded in 1871 . The planned route should branch off in Tomteboda from the state-owned Norra stambanan (today Ostkustbanan ) opened in 1866 and run via Enköping and Västerås to Köping. From Tillberga, northeast of Västerås, a branch was to be built via Ramnäs to Ängelsberg . The Köping – Tillberga section was opened in 1875, at the same time as the Tillberga – Sala line was opened. The Tillberga – Tomteboda section followed a year later. The Tillberga station had thus developed into an important junction of the private rail network north of the Mälaren.

Changes from 1875

No Örebro – Hult

From 1860 a state branch line was built from Hallsberg on the Västra stambanan to Örebro. With the opening of this line on August 1, 1862, there was no longer any need to continue building the Köping – Hults Järnväg to Mälaren after Hult. In 1881 Köping – Hults Järnväg gave up this plan and in 1890 it was converted into a new company called Örebro – Köpings Järnvägsaktiebolag (ÖKJ).

Örebro – Frövi becomes a state railway

In order to connect the southern and northern trunk lines, an extension of the Hallsberg – Örebro state railway was planned from 1896 in a northerly direction to Krylbo on what was then known as Norra stambanan . In 1897 the shareholders of ÖKJ therefore decided to offer the Örebro – Frövi section to the state for sale. In the same year the company Trafikaktiebolaget Grängesberg – Oxelösund (TGOJ) took over the ÖKJ. In 1899 the Reichstag decided to buy the Örebro – Frövi section.

nationalization

In 1944 Stockholm – Västerås – Bergslagens Järnvägar was nationalized. The ÖKJ, now a subsidiary of the TGOJ, only operated the Frövi – Köping section under private management. In the 1980s this section was nationalized.

electrification

The Örebro – Frövi section, which was sold to the state in 1900, was electrified by 1933. Immediately after the nationalization of the SWB section, work on electrification began there. In 1946, the contact wire from Tomteboda to Kungsängen went into operation. The TGOJ worked on the electrification of its section and in 1947 the continuous electrical operation between Tomteboda and Frövi could be started.

Multi-track expansion

Due to the rapidly growing traffic volume, the Tomteboda – Spånga section was expanded to two-track as early as 1908. At the beginning of the 1960s the route followed to Kallhäll. In 1968, the Stockholm suburban train system , which has been known as Pendeltåg since the 1980s, was introduced, similar to the S-Bahn . On the Mälarbana, the suburban trains initially ran to Kungsängen.

In order to shorten travel times and increase the capacity of the line, a double-track expansion between Stockholm and Kolbäck and a partially straightened route were planned from the 1980s. As the first part of these new measures, the double-track, partially new route expansion between Västerås and Kolbäck went into operation in 1993.

In 1995 the Bålsta – Enköping section followed, for which a new bridge had to be built over the Ekolsundsvik , a bay on the Mälaren. In the course of this expansion, the Ekolsund and Kräga train stations and the Nyckelby stop were cut off from the rail network and, if not already done earlier, closed.

By 1996, the Enköping – Västerås section had two tracks and was straightened, with a new tunnel having to be built. In the course of this work, the previous Tillberga railway junction was cut off from the Mälarbana. Since then, only the Västerås – Sala trains have stopped in Tillberga. Tillberga was closed in 2009 and the trains have been running without stopping since then.

In 1997 a mainly single-track new line was opened between Jädersbruk and Hovsta exclusively for passenger traffic. Due to a maximum incline of 25 ‰, this cannot be used by freight trains. With the opening of this line, all passenger stations and stops on the old line were closed except for Frövi. Trains of the Mälarbana no longer stop in Frövi, only individual trains between Hallsberg and Avesta Krylbo.

The double-track expansion between Kallhäll and Kungsängen lasted until 2001, as several bridges and tunnels had to be rebuilt here in the mountainous and densely populated area. In the course of this expansion phase, the Stäket station was abandoned. With the completion of this construction work in August 2001, the Pendeltåg connection was extended to Bålsta.

From 2012 to 2016, the Barkarby – Kallhäll section was expanded to include four tracks. The previous stops at Barkarby and Kallhäll were upgraded by installing switch connections to railway stations.

In the next section, Barkarby – Spånga, four-track operation began in September 2019, after which the Tomteboda – Spånga section is to be expanded to four-track. Because Sundbyberg station is also to be lowered in this context , it is not expected to be completed before 2028.

Today's operation

Since the completion of the double-track expansion, in addition to numerous freight trains, regional trains of the SJ have been running every hour, during rush hour every half hour, between Stockholm and Örebro, sometimes on to Gothenburg. Until December 2010, these drove as locomotive-hauled trains, since then mainly as double-decker X40 multiple units with up to 200 km / h on the expanded sections. In addition, Pendeltåg trains from Storstockholms Lokaltrafik (series X60 ) also run every half hour between Bålsta and Stockholm. The SJ regional trains between Norrköping and Sala also run between Kolbäck and Tillberga with railcars of the Regina and X12 series . These trains are the only passenger trains that still use the old Västerås Norra – Tillberga section, but have been running through Tillberga without stopping since 2009.

In July 2017, the Karlberg station was closed because trains no longer stop there after the Pendeltåg is now run over the Citybanan .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Mälarbanan. Trafikverket , January 24, 2014, accessed May 7, 2015 (Swedish). 
2. ↑ JNB 2020 Bilaga 3 E STH per sträcka. (PDF) Utgåva 2019-09-23. trafikverket.se, December 2, 2019, p. 136 , accessed on December 2, 2019 (Swedish). 
3. ↑ Frövi-Ervalla-Hovsta-Örebro C. Bandel 245, SJ-district I. In: banvakt.se. Jöran Johansson, accessed May 7, 2015 (Swedish). Frövi Vanneboda – Arboga – Valskog – Köping. Bandel 262. In: banvakt.se. Jöran Johansson, accessed May 7, 2015 (Swedish). Frövi – Frövi Vanneboda. Bandel 262: 1. In: banvakt.se. Jöran Johansson, accessed May 7, 2015 (Swedish). Västerås – Kolbäck – Köping. Bandel 238. In: banvakt.se. Jöran Johansson, accessed May 7, 2015 (Swedish). Enköping – Tillberga – Västerås. Bandel 237. In: banvakt.se. Jöran Johansson, accessed May 7, 2015 (Swedish). Karlberg – Sundbyberg N – Spånga – Kallhäll – Enköping. Bandel 235. In: banvakt.se. Jöran Johansson, accessed May 7, 2015 (Swedish).  
    
    
    
    
    
4. ↑ ^{a b c} (Västerås C-) Västerås Norra-Tillberga-Sala. In: järnväg.net. Retrieved May 7, 2015 (Swedish). 
5. ↑ (Västerås-) Kolbäck-Fagersta-Ludvika. In: järnväg.net. Retrieved May 12, 2015 (Swedish). 
6. ↑ ^{a b} Ekolsunds station. Retrieved August 29, 2018 (Swedish). 
7. ↑ Stig Lundin: Stäket Station. Retrieved May 19, 2015 (Swedish). 
8. ↑ SJK Postvagnen: route since 2012 unused
9. ↑ ^{a b} Spånga - Lövsta och Sundbyberg - Ulvsunda. Retrieved November 19, 2017 (Swedish). 
10. ↑ Rolf Sten: ÖKJ, Örebro - Köpings Järnväg. Före detta Köping - Hults Järnväg, KHJ. In: Historiskt om Svenska Järnvägar. December 19, 2003, accessed May 8, 2015 (Swedish). 
11. ↑ Rolf Sten: ÖKJ, Örebro - Köpings Järnväg. Arboga-Köpings järnvägsaktiebolag. In: Historiskt om Svenska Järnvägar. December 19, 2003, accessed May 12, 2015 (Swedish). 
12. ↑ ^{a b c d e} (Stockholm-) Karlberg-Enköping-Västerås-Arboga-Hovsta (-Örebro). Mälarbanan. In: järnväg.net. Retrieved May 12, 2015 (Swedish). 
13. ↑ Rolf Sten: Snabbfakta Statsbanan Hallberg - Örebro. In: Historiskt om Svenska Järnvägar. August 27, 2004, accessed May 17, 2015 (Swedish). 
14. ^ Rolf Sten: Statsbanan Krylbo - Örebro. In: Historiskt om Svenska Järnvägar. August 27, 2004, accessed May 17, 2015 (Swedish). 
15. ^ Barkarby station map. jarfalla.se, July 12, 2012, accessed November 19, 2017 (Swedish). 
16. ↑ Card of the station Kallhäll. jarfalla.se, July 12, 2012, accessed November 19, 2017 (Swedish). 
17. ↑ Läget just nu i Mälaren Line project. trafikverket.se, July 7, 2017, accessed November 18, 2017 (Swedish).