City tunnel Malmö

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Location of the tunnel (red)
Triangeln railway station , southern station building
Underground platform, Triangeln train station
Construction shaft at Holma
Southern shaft at Triangeln
City tunnel in the area of ​​Malmö Central Station

The Citytunnel is a railway line in Malmö , Sweden and part of the København – Malmö railway line . The total length is 17 km, of which about 6 km in the tunnel.

The tunnel transformed Malmö C Central Station into a through station . The tunnel is intended to increase the catchment area of ​​the Öresund traffic and the Pågatåg trains. The tunnel was opened on December 4, 2010.

Effects

With the construction of the Triangeln underground station in Malmö, travel time from the surrounding area, for example from Lund , to Malmö's city ​​center will be significantly reduced. Malmö will thus have a total of two stops in the center, with Triangeln where most of the workplaces and apartments are located. A third stop of the train is in Hyllievång , a newly emerging district of Malmö with residential and business areas.

The capacity of the main station will be increased considerably by the conversion to a through station. As a result, it is now also possible to connect by rail to the places that were previously only served by buses due to the lack of capacity at Malmö C station, although these places have long been part of the railway network. It starts with Trelleborg , Lomma , Svalöv , later Staffanstorp (- Simrishamn ) should follow.

The connections to and from Malmö are generally shortened by the reconstruction of the railways. The connection between Malmö and Copenhagen will be faster, the time saved is greatest when traveling from the new train station at Triangeln (15 to 25 minutes). For areas north of Malmö, the journey time is shortened by just under five minutes for trips to Copenhagen, as the train has to stop at Malmö Central Station for scheduling reasons. Compared to the previous design as a terminus station , the train now only needs two instead of seven minutes to stop.

Construction and Financing

With the start of the Öresund traffic, the Kontinentalbanan ring line was expanded to double-track to ensure that trains to Copenhagen run every 20 minutes. Because of the complaints of the residents against the increasing noise, it became necessary to relieve the Ringbahn.

The first construction contracts were signed in mid-November 2004. A consortium led by Bilfinger Berger was commissioned . The planned construction time was 52 months.

The two tunnel boring machines Anna (S-340) and Katrin (S-341) started work in November 2006 and February 2007, respectively, Anna reached the main station on March 25, 2008, Katrin about a month later on April 21.

The financial outlay for the city tunnel was estimated in February 2005 at around one billion euros. Of this, around 767 million euros in costs are attributable to the Banverket , 118 million euros to the city of Malmö, 97 million to the Skåne region and 18 million to EU funding. The Centrum för Transportekonomi (CTEK) has carried out the analysis of the profitability of the city tunnel, according to which the project will essentially be cost-bearing . The estimates were made in 2001, at an estimated total cost of 864 million euros. The number of train journeys in the region has tended to increase since then. The financing is based on the fact that a construction project does not necessarily have to be completely profitable if the construction site causes higher costs than average. It is generally more complex and therefore more expensive to create expressways and rail lines in cities and towns, since additional costs have to be provided for noise protection. Land prices are also higher there. A slightly lower calculation is therefore deliberately assumed, as the aim is to avoid projects being rejected as unprofitable in areas with higher construction costs. The planning for construction projects such as Södra Länken in Stockholm , the Götatunnel in Göteborg and others have been calculated in a comparable manner .

Web links

Commons : Citytunneln  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Citytunneln - invigning. (No longer available online.) In: citytunneln.com. Archived from the original on November 20, 2010 ; Retrieved March 10, 2019 (Swedish). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.citytunneln.com
  2. ↑ Kaos på första stora dagen. Sydsvenskan , archived from the original on January 4, 2011 ; Retrieved March 10, 2019 (Swedish).
  3. ↑ Announcement First contracts for city tunnel . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International , Issue 1/2005, ISSN  1421-2811 , p. 34.
  4. ↑ The bored tunnels. citytunneln.com, May 14, 2008, archived from the original on August 28, 2008 ; accessed on September 7, 2017 (English).
  5. ↑ Pictures from the carbon copy on March 25, 2008. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on March 10, 2019 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.citytunneln.com
  6. ↑ ? (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on March 10, 2019 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.eurailpress.com
  7. ↑ Citytunnelprojektet är avslutat. citytunneln.com, December 17, 2010, archived from the original on January 20, 2011 ; Retrieved September 7, 2017 (Swedish).
  8. ↑ Hur mycket kostar city tunnels? Archived from the original on March 23, 2006 ; Retrieved September 7, 2017 (Swedish).