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2x per hour; Not on evenings and Sunday mornings, except Sunday evenings until +/- 8pm Den Helder - Alkmaar only at peak hours. Some peak hour trains begin/end at Schagen instead of Den Helder 900 Intercity Direct: Amsterdam Centraal - Schiphol Airport - Rotterdam Centraal - Breda: Bombardier Traxx with ICRm units 2x per hour
The contract was won by A-Train in 1994, which started construction in 1995 and opened the line and station on 25 November 1999. [5] This made Arlanda Airport the first airport in Sweden and the fourth in the Nordic countries to have an airport rail link, after Trondheim Airport , and Oslo Airport in Norway, and Copenhagen Airport in Denmark.
The Arlanda Line in its entirety is owned by the state-owned Arlanda Infrastructure, which also owns platforms 1 and 2 at Stockholm C. [6] A-Train holds a monopoly on the right to transport passengers from Stockholm to Arlanda; other train operators only have the right to transport passengers to the airport from other towns and cities. In 2008 ...
For trips to Amsterdam Centraal station, passengers had to travel to RAI and transfer to a local train. A direct link was created with the construction of the Amsterdam-Schiphol railway in 1986. A newly built underground station opened in 1995; the former building was demolished.
Other operators, including SJ and the SL commuter trains use Arlanda Central station. Arlanda Express normally operates four times every hour, but during rush hour this is increased to five times per hour. Travel time to Stockholm is 18 minutes. [2] The Arlanda Express is operated by A-Train, a subsidiary of Macquarie Group. [3]
All lines have trains every 10 minutes during the day, reduced to every 15 minutes in early mornings and late evenings, and every 30 minutes at night. Additional trains during peak hours gives a train every 5–6 minutes on most stations, with 2–3 minutes between trains on the central parts of the network.
The higher DC voltage would reduce power losses and have faster acceleration above 60 to 70 kilometres per hour (37 to 43 mph), so stopping trains would save seven to 20 seconds per stop. [ 12 ] Speed is generally limited to 130–140 kilometres per hour (81–87 mph), but on most secondary lines the maximum speed is significantly lower.
Today, Stockholm’s main traffic arteries include Essingeleden, Södertäljevägen, and other radial routes connecting the city out to surrounding areas. Stockholm is at the junction of the European routes E4, E18 and E20. A C-shaped motorway ring road exists around the south, west and north of the City Centre. The northern section of the ring ...