Baltic Sea rail tunnel
| Baltic Sea rail tunnel | |
|---|---|
| use | Railway tunnel |
| place | Baltic Sea |
| length | 97 km |
| construction | |
| start of building | |
| Coordinates | |
| North portal | 55 ° 23 '10 " N , 13 ° 1' 5" E |
| South portal | 54 ° 26 ′ 20 " N , 13 ° 1 ′ 5" E |
Map with all coordinates: The Baltic Sea Railway Tunnel is a proposed, approximately 97 km long railway tunnel under the Baltic Sea between Malmö in Sweden and Stralsund in Germany to cross the Baltic Sea.
Project study
The project study describes a connection from Oslo and Stockholm via Malmö and Stralsund to Berlin . After the completion of the tunnel, unprecedented in this dimension, the fixed Baltic Sea crossing could become the longest and deepest railway tunnel in the world. It would be 70% longer than the longest railway tunnels to date, the Gotthard Base Tunnel and the Seikan Tunnel . The tunnel would also bypass the Hamburg bottleneck . It would also reduce transit traffic through Denmark .
The tubes for train traffic would allow speeds of up to 200 km / h. The underground passage, regardless of the weather, could be reduced to 30 to 60 minutes through the tunnel.
The economic viability of the tunnel is questionable due to the great length and the future parallel connection through the Fehmarnbelt tunnel via Denmark.
Alternative routes
For the increasing flow of traffic and goods over a planned network of roads and railways, route and thus time-reducing alternatives such as the Fehmarnbelt tunnel or Rostock-Gedser tunnel for the connection to the Scandinavian economic area are being planned.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Schwerin / Stralsund. Transport Minister says yes to tunnels to Sweden . In: Ostsee-Zeitung of January 27, 2014, accessed on August 16, 2015
- ↑ Scandinavians are planning super tunnels , nordkurier.de from January 28, 2014, accessed on August 16, 2015
- ↑ Competition for the Belt Link , svz.de from February 3, 2015, accessed on August 16, 2015
- ↑ Eisenbahn magazin, March 2014, p. 19