Continental Line

The Continental Line (Swedish: Kontinentalbanan) is a 32-kilometre (20 mi) long railway between Malmö and Trelleborg in Sweden. At Trelleborg the railway terminates at a railway ferry quay allowing rail cars to be ferried to Sassnitz in Germany. A part of the railway is also part of the line between Malmö and Copenhagen via the Oresund Bridge. The first seven kilometers of the line are double track.

Continental Line
Vintage train in Trelleborg harbour (2013)
Overview
TypeRailway
SystemSwedish railways
TerminiMalmö C
Trelleborg C, Trelleborg F
Operation
Opened1898
OwnerBanverket
Operator(s)Green Cargo
SJ
Skåne commuter rail
DSB
CharacterFreight and passenger
Technical
Line length32 kilometres (20 mi)
Track length39 kilometres (24 mi)
Number of tracksDouble or Single
Track gauge1,435 mm (4 ft 8 12 in)
Electrification15 kV  16.7 Hz AC
Route map

All services north
Malmö
Triangeln
Hyllie
Øresund Line to Copenhagen
Ystad Line to Ystad
Svågertorp
Ingelstad
Grevie
Trelleborg
Baltic Sea
Ferry services to Rostock, Saßnitz, Świnoujście

Local passenger trains between Malmö and Trelleborg serves the railway with several stops along the route, and uses the old central station building of Trelleborg near the ferry port. The passenger service began to run again in the fall of 2015, after 40 years of non-existence. Transport company Veolia operates a direct sleeper train service between Malmö and Berlin (formerly known as Berlin Night Express), using the ferry.

History

At first called Malmö-Kontinentens Järnväg, the railway was opened in 1898 and was initially thought of as an extension of Södra Stambanan southwards. The line replaced an old railway between Malmö and Trelleborg, the Malmö–Trelleborg Railway, which didn't have good enough standard for the traffic. The ferry traffic service started in 1909, the same year it was nationalized. It was electrified in 1933. In the 1950s the seven kilometers between Malmö and Lockarp were rebuilt to double track. In 1973 the local passenger train line between Malmö and Trelleborg were shut down, but was reactivated again in 2015.

Most of the international trains on the railway were foreign, and until the 1970s there were direct trains from Malmö to Moscow (operated by the Russian Railways), Hamburg (operated by Deutsche Bundesbahn) and Prague.

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  • "Kontinentalbanan". Järnväg.net (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 30 November 2009.
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