Götalandsbanan (the
Gothia line) is a planned
high-speed railway planned to be built between
Södertälje
Södertälje ( , ) is a city in Södermanland and Stockholm County, Sweden and seat of Södertälje Municipality. As of 2017, it has 72,704 inhabitants. Södertälje is located at Mälarens confluence in to the Baltic Sea through the lock in the ...
and
Gothenburg in Sweden, past
Linköping
Linköping () is a city in southern Sweden, with around 105,000 inhabitants as of 2021. It is the seat of Linköping Municipality and the capital of Östergötland County. Linköping is also the episcopal see of the Diocese of Linköping (Church ...
and
Jönköping
Jönköping (, ) is a city in southern Sweden with 112,766 inhabitants (2022). Jönköping is situated on the southern shore of Sweden's second largest lake, Vättern, in the province of Småland.
The city is the seat of Jönköping Municipa ...
. The planned length is about . The speed is planned to be .
It will, if built, be used for passenger trains going between Gothenburg-Stockholm, Gothenburg-Borås, Malmö-Linköping-Stockholm, Linköping-Stockholm and more connections. The travel time Gothenburg-Stockholm is expected to be 2:00 to 2:15 compared to 2:45 to 3:00 today. The travel time (Malmö-)Linköping-Stockholm would be cut by 40 min, Jönköping-Borås by 40 min and Gothenburg-Borås by 20 min. A more dense schedule is possible as well. It is also planned to have railway stations at the
Göteborg Landvetter Airport
Göteborg Landvetter Airport () is an international airport serving the Gothenburg (Swedish: ''Göteborg'') region in Sweden. With just over 6.8 million passengers in 2018 it is Sweden's second-largest airport after Stockholm–Arlanda. Landvette ...
and the
Stockholm-Skavsta Airport. An additional objective is to free up capacity for Cargo rail on the existing rail network. The disadvantage with the project is the big cost.
Current planning stage
![Sweden railways](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9f/Sweden_railways.png)
The railway has a detailed plan between Gothenburg-Borås, and between Linköping-Södertälje (this part is called
Ostlänken). Detailed planning is being done between Borås-Linköping. It was announced in August 2012 that the Swedish government had decided to proceed with Ostlänken. The announcement also contained details of the proposed double-tracking upgrade between Mölnlycke and Bollebygd as part of the programme, though the announcement didn't say what has happened to the original plan to build a station on the presumably-discontinued section of high-speed line between Mölnlycke and Bollebygd serving
Göteborg Landvetter Airport
Göteborg Landvetter Airport () is an international airport serving the Gothenburg (Swedish: ''Göteborg'') region in Sweden. With just over 6.8 million passengers in 2018 it is Sweden's second-largest airport after Stockholm–Arlanda. Landvette ...
(which is currently a few kilometres away from the existing railway line).
The railway is covered under Sverigeförhandlingen, a government negotiation process providing funding for high-speed rail projects in Sweden.
Gothenburg–Borås
The Gothenburg–Borås railway has been divided into three sections: (Gothenburg–) Almedal–
Mölnlycke
Mölnlycke is a small town nearby Greater Gothenburg, a locality and the seat of Härryda Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden. It had 17,499 inhabitants in 2019. The urban area stretches over two municipalities. Mölndal Municipality ...
, Mölnlycke–
Bollebygd (via Göteborg Landvetter Airport), and Bollebygd–Borås. The total cost of the project is expected to be 33 billion SEK (€3.5 billion) at 2015 price levels.
*Almedal–Mölnlycke and Bollebygd–Borås: On both sections, work on selecting a corridor in which the railway will run was expected to be finished in 2017. However, this has been affected by the work with Sverigeförhandlingen.
*Mölnlycke–Bollebygd: A corridor was selected in 2007. , a railway plan, where the exact route will be selected, is being drafted. Originally, construction was planned to begin in 2020, but is now scheduled to begin from 2025 to 2027.
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Borås–Linköping
, a strategic choice of measures study (''åtgärdsvalsstudie'') for the Borås–Linköping section is expected to be finished in early 2018. An advance copy of the study was released on 15 February 2017.
Europabanan, the high-speed line to Malmö, is planned to branch from Götalandsbanan in Jönköping
Jönköping (, ) is a city in southern Sweden with 112,766 inhabitants (2022). Jönköping is situated on the southern shore of Sweden's second largest lake, Vättern, in the province of Småland.
The city is the seat of Jönköping Municipa ...
. In Jönköping, the railway will pass south of the city centre, where a new station will be built.
Linköping–Södertälje (–Stockholm)
, an up to wide corridor, in which the East Link will run, has been selected. A railway plan is being drafted. Construction is expected to begin in November 2017, with the Kardon Line (''Kardonbanan''), a new freight line connecting Norrköping Harbour with the Southern Main Line
The Southern Main Line ( sv, Södra stambanan) is a long standard gauge electrified railway between Malmö and Katrineholm in Sweden. The trains continue further on to Stockholm Central Station along the Western Main Line and terminate there (a ...
, since the East Link will cut off the old connection. Full construction is expected to commence in 2021, with operation in 2033–2035.
References
External links
Götalandsbanan, on Swedish Transport Administration website
Götalandsbanan, The Götaland Line, by Swedish Transport Administration
Swedish Transport Administration page on the Gothenburg–Borås line
Sverigeförhandlingen, a negotiation organisation set up by the Swedish government
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High-speed railway lines in Sweden
Proposed public transport in Sweden