Uppsala central station
| Uppsala central station | |
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 Old and new station building
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| Data | |
| Location in the network | Through station |
| Platform tracks | 8th |
| abbreviation | Uppsala C |
| IBNR | 7400102 |
| opening | 1866 |
| Website URL | Uppsala central station |
| Architectural data | |
| architect | Old building: Adolf W. Edelsvärd New building: |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Uppsala |
| province | Uppsala län |
| Country | Sweden |
| Coordinates | 59 ° 51 '31 " N , 17 ° 38' 46" E |
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| List of train stations in Sweden | |
Uppsala centralstation or Uppsala C is the main train station and, since 1980, the only scheduled passenger station in the Swedish city of Uppsala . The station was opened on September 19, 1866 together with the originally called Norra stambanan railway line Stockholm – Uppsala. The reception building was designed by the Swedish architect Adolf W. Edelsvärd . Since the completion of the renovation work in 2011, the entire complex has been called the Uppsala resecentrum .
history
opening
On September 19, 1866, the station was opened by the Swedish King Charles XV. inaugurated together with the Stockholm – Uppsala railway line. The next day, the scheduled train service began with initially three pairs of trains per day, the travel time was around two and a half hours.
Uppsala was initially the end point of the state route originally called Norra stambanan , which ran northwards from Stockholm. Since the extension to the north to Storvik was planned from the start, the station was planned and built as a through station. In 1873 the extension to Heby was opened. On December 14, 1874, the first scheduled train ran on the private Uppsala – Gävle route. This route branches off from the Norra stambanan about one kilometer north of Uppsala centralstation . In 1877 the narrow-gauge railway line Uppsala – Länna was opened. In May 1912, the line to Enköping, branching off the Norra stambanan at Uppsala Norra station , was opened.
Expansion and electrification
Due to the rapidly growing volume of traffic, the Stockholm – Uppsala line was expanded to double-track from 1882. The expansion work was completed in 1911. In the course of this expansion work, the platform hall was demolished in 1910 and replaced by individual platform roofs.
The line was electrified from 1926, and the contact wire reached Uppsala in December 1934.
Route renaming
In the course of redefining the names for most of the Swedish railway lines in 1990, the then railway authority Banverket proposed both the Stockholm – Uppsala and the Uppsala – Gävle line to the Ostkustban . The Uppsala – Sala – Borlänge – Mora route was given the new name Dalabanan .
Conversion to the Resecentrum
Between 2005 and 2011, the station was almost completely rebuilt: the number of standard-gauge platform tracks was increased from five to eight. Four of them are dead ends , two each to the north and south. The level access to the platforms, secured by barriers, was replaced by an underpass with lifts to all platforms and a new station building was built. Since then, the station building from 1866, protected as Byggnadsminne , has not been used for rail purposes. There is a restaurant and a jazz bar.
The former storage shed northeast of the track system was converted into a restaurant and business building.
business
Uppsala C is an important hub for long-distance and local travelers. The station is the end point of the Pendeltåg route J38 Älvsjö – Stockholm C – Arlanda C – Uppsala, the end point of the Uppsalapendel , operated by SJ, the Stockholm C – Märsta – Knivsta – Uppsala C regional train, the southern end point of the Upptåget lines from Sala and Gävle. Local and long-distance trains to Mora, Östersund, Sundsvall and Stockholm also stop in Uppsala C.
The station is of great importance for the connection of the university and congress city Uppsala to the international airport Stockholm / Arlanda . Shuttle trains run every half hour during the day (travel time 18 minutes), as well as buses almost all day, also every half hour (travel time 40 minutes). In addition, individual regional trains run by other companies.
Until December 2012, the Upptaget trains coming from Gävle ran via Stockholm / Arlanda airport through to Upplands Väsby , since then travelers coming from Gävle have had to change to the airport in Uppsala C on Pendeltåg.
Track occupancy
With the exception of the continuous tracks 1 and 8, which are accessible via outer platforms and are mainly used for night trains and passing freight trains, all tracks can be reached via a central central platform. Continuous trains stop on track 2 in a northerly direction and on track 7 in a southerly direction. Tracks 3 and 4 are butt tracks in a southerly direction, the Pendeltåg to Stockholm stops on track 3, and the Uppsalapendel on track 4 . Tracks 5 and 6 are butt tracks in a northerly direction; the Upptåget trains to Gävle and Sala stop on them.
Uppsala östra station
For the narrow-gauge railway line Uppsala – Länna, a separate station area with operating facilities and a reception building was created under the name Uppsala östra station northeast of the Uppsala C tracks. The original wooden station building was demolished in 1934 and replaced by a new stone building. This was again demolished in 1971 after passenger traffic had ceased in 1964. The museum railway, which has been running regularly in summer since 1975, had to make do with various makeshift arrangements.
During the renovation from 2005 to 2011, during which the railway bridge over the Strandbodgata was replaced, the Uppsala östra station was relocated around 500 meters to the southeast in the Frodepark located south of the Strandbodgatan. With the completion of the renovation work in December 2011, Uppsala Ö was relocated to its current location directly next to platform 8 of Uppsala C and a new reception building in the style of the 1930s was opened. A transfer track and a water crane were built. This current location is about 200 meters southeast of the original location, where a parking lot was created, among other things.
Web links
- Uppsala Centralstation. Jernhusen AB, accessed on November 20, 2014 (Swedish, website of the station at the operating company Jernhusen AB).
- Stig Lundin: Uppsala station - Uppsala Central. Retrieved November 25, 2014 (Swedish).
- Hasse Sandersen: Järnvägsstationer Uppsala. In: Upplandia.se. September 23, 2010, accessed December 2, 2014 (Swedish).
- Entry at the Riksantikvarieämbetet
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Rolf Sten: Norra stambanan Stockholm - Storvik. In: Historiskt om Svenska Järnvägar. November 11, 2007, accessed November 20, 2014 (Swedish).
- ↑ Rolf Sten: History UGJ och Dess bibanor. Tobacco shops startar. In: Historiskt om Svenska Järnvägar. March 5, 2004, accessed November 20, 2014 (Swedish).
- ↑ Rolf Sten: Snabbfakta om Uppsala - Enköpings Järnväg. In: Historiskt om Svenska Järnvägar. January 21, 2008, accessed November 20, 2014 (Swedish).
- ↑ Barbariets triumf. Sveriges Järnvägsmuseum, April 1, 2011, accessed on December 2, 2014 (Swedish).
- ↑ Två nya spår tas i break at Uppsala resecentrum. Trafikverket, December 8, 2011, accessed November 26, 2014 (Swedish).
- ^ Staffan Wolters: Ny station efter lång väntan. Uppsala Nya Tidning, May 12, 2012, accessed December 2, 2014 (Swedish).