Classic route
SJ Snabbtåg
Stockholm → Malmö · Sweden
SJ Snabbtåg in pictures
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- Distance
- 593 km
- Fastest time
- 4 h 22 min
- Average speed
- 136 km/h
- Top speed
- 200 km/h
- Operator
- SJ
- Train
- X 2000
- Countries
- Sweden
- In service since
- 1990
- Runs
- roughly hourly
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
SJ’s tilting X2000 links Stockholm with Malmö and the Øresund gateway at up to 200 km/h. Sweden’s flagship fast run down the Southern Main Line.
The X2000’s southern marathon runs the 1864 Southern Main Line from the capital to the Öresund, tilting through Sörmland’s lakes, the plains of Östergötland and the deep spruce of the Småland highlands before Skåne’s open farmland announces the end. Malmö Central sits a bridge away from Copenhagen, which is the route’s quiet superpower: many passengers stay aboard connections straight over the water. Four and a half hours, with the classic Swedish bistro serving köttbullar at 200 km/h.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 8858855 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 34 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 10 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: SJ — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Along the way
- Sörmland lake country
- Östergötland plains at Linköping
- Småland spruce highlands
- Skåne’s open farmland
- Malmö Central by the Öresund
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