Type Main line Operator(s) Not decided | Opened 2018 Number of tracks Double | |
Line length ca. 60 km (double track) Track gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 ⁄2 in) Terminis Copenhagen Central Station, Ringsted | ||
The Copenhagen–Ringsted line is a railway under construction on Zealand, Denmark, connecting Copenhagen via Køge with Ringsted. Construction began on 2012-09-12, and the line should then be activated in 2018.
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Planning and construction
The current railway from Copenhagen to Ringsted (part of the Copenhagen–Fredericia/Taulov Line) is congested, and forms a bottleneck for which two solutions have been proposed.
In March 2007, the Danish parliament decided to restrict research to two solutions, the so-called 'greenfield solution' and the 'fifth-track solution'. The fifth solution was rejected in late 2009, although it would have been cheaper.
The projected time for completion is eight years from 2010, of which construction will take five years.
Operations
The main aim of the greenfield solution is to deviate all trains to the new line which do not service local destinations between Copenhagen and Roskilde or between Roskilde and Ringsted. This way, local traffic can expand on the existing railway, and travel on the new line allows travel times between Copenhagen and Køge, where a station will be constructed at Køge North, to be reduced by 15 minutes. Total capacity of the new line will be 24 trains per hour per direction, but this number is far larger than the current capacity of Copenhagen Central Station, which is ca. 17 trains arriving from west per hour.
Trajectory
The line will follow the motorway E20 (shared on the section north of Køge with E47 and E55).