Classic route
Öresundståg
Gothenburg → Copenhagen · Sweden · Denmark
Öresundståg in pictures
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- Distance
- 336 km
- Fastest time
- 3 h 50 min
- Average speed
- 88 km/h
- Top speed
- 180 km/h
- Operator
- Öresundståg
- Train
- X31 Contessa
- Countries
- Sweden, Denmark
- In service since
- 2000
- Runs
- hourly
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Rolls off Sweden’s West Coast Line and over the 8 km Øresund Bridge, plunging into the Drogden tunnel to reach Copenhagen.
The Öresundståg network exists because of one structure: the 16 km fixed link of 2000, which drops from Europe’s longest cable-stayed bridge onto the artificial island of Peberholm and dives under the Drogden channel into Denmark. The Gothenburg run gathers the Swedish west coast first (Varberg’s fortress, Halmstad’s beaches, Helsingborg facing Hamlet’s Kronborg across the narrows), then Lund’s cathedral city and Malmö before the crossing itself, trains sharing the deck with the motorway above. It made a single commuting region of two countries.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 3345660 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 8 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via ÖBB Scotty: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of R 1055
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Along the way
- Varberg fortress on the Kattegat
- Hallandsås tunnel
- Helsingborg — Kronborg across the sound
- Lund cathedral city
- Öresund bridge crossing
- København H arrival
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