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Scandlines' Öresundslinjens ferries depart more than 70 times daily, from each port. Every 20 minutes for most of the day, and for cargo with an additional ferry. [2] As the distance between Denmark and Sweden here only is around 2.5 nautical miles (approx. 4 km), the crossing time is just 20 minutes. [3]
In Sweden, E20 is a motorway from the Öresund Bridge in Malmö to Alingsås 48 km northeast of Gothenburg, a 330 km (210 mi) long motorway. Furthermore, it is a motorway most of the route from Vretstorp (20 km (12 mi) west of Örebro ) to Stockholm .
The E55 is not and has not been signposted in Sweden. Since 2018, the E55 is not signposted between Helsingør and Køge in Denmark, but is signposted south of Køge. [ 2 ]
A fixed link between Germany and Denmark was planned to have been completed by 2020, now delayed to 2029. It will be a tunnel rather than a bridge. [1] The road across Fehmarn will be widened from two to four lanes before the tunnel opens. A construction start ceremony was held for this on 25 august 2023. [2]
Apart from the reduced frequency, services from Sweden to Denmark ran as usual to Helsingør during the day and Østerport in the evenings, with no ID checks entering Denmark. Since 4 May 2017 the line had changed to perform ID checks only at Malmö Hyllie station for trains travelling to Sweden.
The Danish signalling system is only approved for 180 km/h (110 mph) speed, while the Swedish system is approved for 200 km/h (125 mph). The entire bridge has 200 km/h (125 mph) maximum speed, also the Danish part, as the only railway in Denmark. On double-track lines in Denmark trains run on the right whereas in Sweden they run on the left.
The Skagerrak (Danish: [ˈskɛːjɐˌʁɑk], Norwegian: [ˈskɑ̀ːɡərɑk], Swedish: [ˈskɑ̌ːɡɛrak]) is a strait running between the Jutland peninsula of Denmark, the east coast of Norway and the west coast of Sweden, connecting the North Sea and the Kattegat sea.
The Øresund or Öresund Bridge [6] is a combined railway and motorway cable-stayed bridge across the Øresund strait between Denmark and Sweden.It is the second longest bridge in Europe with both roadway and railway combined in a single structure, running nearly 8 kilometres (5 miles) from the Swedish coast to the artificial island Peberholm in the middle of the strait.