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| Coordinates | 59°38′46″N17°55′42″E / 59.64614°N 17.92822°E /59.64614; 17.92822 | ||||||||||
| Owned by | Arlanda Infrastructure | ||||||||||
| Line | Arlanda Line | ||||||||||
| Platforms | 1 | ||||||||||
| Tracks | 2 | ||||||||||
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| Structure type | Underground | ||||||||||
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| Opened | 25 November 1999 | ||||||||||
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Arlanda South Station (Swedish:Arlanda södra station) is arailway station on theArlanda Line servingStockholm-Arlanda Airport inSweden. The station is one of two stations at the airport to be served by theArlanda Express, the other beingArlanda North Station. The station is located in a dedicated tunnel below the airport and is served by four or five trains per hour. The station serves Terminals 2, 3 and 4 of the airport. The station is 38.5 kilometres (23.9 mi) from Stockholm Central Station.[1]
The station is served exclusively by the Arlanda Express, a dedicatedairport rail link which connects the airport toStockholm Central Station. Other operators, includingSJ and theSL commuter trains useArlanda Central station. Arlanda Express normally operates four times every hour, but duringrush hour this is increased to five times per hour. Travel time to Stockholm is 18 minutes.[2]
The Arlanda Express is operated by A-Train, a subsidiary ofMacquarie Group.[3] The Arlanda Express operate usingX3 high-speed trains.[4]
Plans for a railway line from central Stockholm to the airport started in the early 1980s. 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 existingEast Coast Line from Rosersberg and back at Odensala. The
Financing was secured by introducing Sweden's firstpublic–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 opened the line and station on 25 November 1999.[5] This made Arlanda Airport the first airport in Sweden and the fourth in the Nordic countries to have an airport rail link, afterTrondheim Airport andOslo Airport in Norway, andCopenhagen Airport in Denmark.
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