Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg, Falköping Municipality and Östergötland County Council are new members of Europakorridoren.
Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg, Falköping Municipality and Östergötland County Council are new members of Europakorridoren.
Current members of Europakorridoren are the municipalities of Stockholm, Huddinge, Nyköping, Norrköping, Linköping, Mjölby, Boxholm, Tranås, Sävsjö, Jönköping, Habo, Ulricehamn, Borås, Bollebygd, the municipalities that are members of the Göteborg Region, Association of Local Authorities, Vaggeryd, Gislaved, Gnosjö, Värnamo, Ljungby, Markaryd, Örkelljunga, Åstorp and Helsingborg, and also Kronoberg County Council. Members outside Sweden are Helsingør Municipality, Frederiksborg amt and the City of Lübeck. Other interested parties are the Chamber of Commerce in the county of Jönköping, the Jönköping County Administrative Board and the region of Västra Götaland.
The Europakorridoren project was set up in the wake of a newspaper article that discussed a new railway in connection with the E4 motorway, and a statement by Stig Larsson, the then director-general of SJ (Swedish State Railway) about the need for a fast railway.
In 1993, four municipalities, Helsingborg, Ljungby, Värnamo and Jönköping, on the initiative of Ljungby, decided to work for a high speed railway. The project was rapidly taken over from the municipalities and since then it has been run as a bottom-up project.
The goal is for a high speed railway to be built from Stockholm to Hamburg via Jönköping alongside the E4 (the European Line) and from Göteborg to Jönköping along the Riksväg 40 motorway (the Götaland Line).
The European Corridor comprises the area that lies within 60 minutes travel from the above railways, i.e. an area with 65% of Sweden’s population, 5.5 million people.
The European Corridor thus also includes the Southern Main Line, the West Coast Line and all the current crosslinks that run between them. The European Corridor entails integration with all types of transport such as car, air, boat, bus, cycle etc.
Three types of train will be running on the tracks.
Passenger trains with speeds of up to 350 km/hr that will stop at the stations in Stockholm, Norrköping, Linköping, Jönköping, and perhaps Värnamo and Helsingborg. Borås will be a stop-over station between Jönköping and Göteborg.
Passenger trains for speeds of between 200-250 km/hr and local trains for somewhat slower passenger services that stop at considerably more stations and that connect to the fast trains.
Freight trains for light freight such as mail and foodstuffs with overall travel speeds of up to 200 km/hr.
Examples of travelling times are Stockholm - Hamburg 4 hours 25 mins, Göteborg - Jönköping 39 mins, Värnamo - Kastrup 1 hour 33 mins, Malmö - Jönköping 1 hour 20 mins. AB Europakorridoren's MD is Kjell Karlsson, employed by Värnamo Municipality and the secretariat is located in Ljungby.
Further information is available from Kjell Karlsson +46 (0)370-37 72 44 or +46 (0)70-570 29 35.
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Comments by Gunnar Sibbmark, 1st vice chairman and MD, Europakorridoren AB, at the press conference in Stockholm 27-08-2003.
Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg, Falköping Municipality and Östergötland County Council are new members of Europakorridoren.
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