Continental Line

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Continental Line
Single
Character	Freight and passenger
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in)
Electrification	15 kV  16.7 Hz AC
Route map v t e Legend All services north Malmö C Triangeln Hyllie Øresund Line to Copenhagen Ystad Line to Ystad Svågertorp Ingelstad Grevie Trelleborg Baltic Sea Ferry services to Saßnitz, Świnoujście

The Continental Line (

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.

Swedish train operator Snälltåget formerly operated a direct sleeper train service between Malmö and Berlin (previously known as Berlin Night Express), using the now defunct ferry link from Trelleborg to Sassnitz, but this service now travels to Germany overland through Denmark.^[1]

History

At first called Malmö-Kontinentens Järnväg, the railway was opened in 1898 and was initially thought of as an extension of

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.

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Kontinentalbanan.

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