The Igelsta Bridge ( sv, Igelstabron) is a railway bridge in
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 ...
,
Stockholm County in
Sweden. The bridge crosses the
Södertälje Canal
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, and the
E4 motorway. The length is 2140 m, and the maximum height is 48 m. It was opened in 1995, and is the longest railway-only bridge in Scandinavia. The
Oresund Bridge, the western
Great Belt Bridge
The Great Belt Bridge ( da, Storebæltsbroen) or Great Belt fixed link ( da, Storebæltsforbindelsen) is a multi-element fixed link crossing the Great Belt strait between the Danish islands of Zealand and Funen. It consists of a road suspension ...
and the
Storstrøm Bridge
The Storstrøm Bridge ( da, Storstrømsbroen, ) is a road and railway arch bridge that crosses Storstrømmen between the islands of Falster and Masnedø in Denmark.
Together with Masnedsund Bridge it connects Falster and Zealand (''Sjælland''). ...
are longer but have both rail and road.
A railway station,
Södertälje Syd, is located on the western part of bridge.
Escalators are used to reach the tracks. Most high speed trains on the
X 2000
X 2000, also called SJ X2 or simply as X2, is an electric tilting train operated by SJ in Sweden. It was constructed by Kalmar Verkstad in Kalmar, Sweden (prior to the company being bought by Adtranz in 1996) and launched in 1990 as a ...
service to
Gothenburg and
Copenhagen
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and almost all regional trains stop at the station. Local commuter trains stop at the old lower level of the station.
Railway bridges in Sweden
Bridges completed in 1995
Rail infrastructure in Stockholm County
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