Arlanda Central Station
Arlanda Central Station | |||||||||||
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 Entrance from Terminal 5 | |||||||||||
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| Coordinates | 59°38′59″N 17°55′45″E / 59.64959°N 17.92912°E | ||||||||||
| Owned by | A-Train | ||||||||||
| Line(s) | East Coast Line | ||||||||||
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| Opened | 2000 | ||||||||||
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Arlanda Central Station (Swedish: Arlanda centralstation) or Arlanda C is a railway station on the Arlanda Line serving Stockholm-Arlanda Airport in Sweden. It is served by regional, intercity, and night trains operated by SJ, and since December 2012 also by Stockholm commuter rail. Upptåget, which used to operate a commuter service between Upplands Väsby and Uppsala via Arlanda C, now only runs a few morning and night trains on weekends.
Facilities
Arlanda C is one of three train stations at Arlanda, the other two being Arlanda North Station and Arlanda South Station, both which are exclusively served by the Arlanda Express. Arlanda C is located directly under SkyCity, which is between terminal 4 and 5,[1] and is 39 kilometres (24 mi) from Stockholm Central Station. It is located in a 5-kilometre (3.1 mi) long tunnel, which is one of the longest railway tunnels in Sweden.[2]
Service
The station is served by 70 daily regional and long-distance trains operated by SJ.
SJ operates northbound fast trains from Stockholm to Östersund, Sundsvall and Umeå.
Since 9 December 2012, Stockholm commuter rail trains stop at Arlanda C every 30 minutes (60 minutes on weekend mornings and nights). It takes 36 minutes from Arlanda C to Stockholm City station, and 18 minutes to Uppsala C.[3][4]
History
Plans for a railway line from the city center of Stockholm to the airport started in the early 1990s. Policy-makers wanted to allow the airport to grow without increasing the road traffic to the airport, and decided to build a railway. The project involved building a branch from the existing East Coast Line from Rosersberg and back at Odensala. Financing was secured by introducing Sweden's first public–private partnership, whereby a private consortium would be granted a 40-year permit to operate the line in exchange for all direct traffic and the right to collect usage fees from other train companies. The contract was won by A-Train in 1994, which started construction in 1995 and completed the line and station in 1999,[5] with Arlanda C itself opening in 2000 on the East Coast Line shortly after the opening of Arlanda North and Arlanda South stations.
From 2006 to 2012, Upptåget operated a commuter train service every 30 minutes between Upplands Väsby and Uppsala via Arlanda C. At Upplands Väsby, passengers could transfer to Stockholm commuter rail.[1] When Stockholm commuter rail started its service from Älvsjö (Tumba) to Uppsala C, Upptåget ended its commuter service, except for a few morning and night trains on weekends.
References
- ^ a b "Trains". Swedavia. Archived from the original on 13 December 2010. Retrieved 5 November 2010.
- ^ "Stockholm-Märsta/Arlanda-Uppsala". Järnväg.net. Archived from the original on 12 October 2010. Retrieved 5 November 2010.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-05-23. Retrieved 2013-04-13.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ Commuter rail service now available at Stockholm Arlanda Archived 2014-07-14 at the Wayback Machine. Swedavia. Retrieved 3 August 2013.
- ^ "History". Arlanda Express. Archived from the original on 23 October 2010. Retrieved 5 November 2010.
External links
Media related to Arlanda Central train station at Wikimedia Commons
