City Tunnel, Malmö
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Citytunneln, or the City Tunnel, is a 17 kilometer rail link between the current terminal station Malmö Central and the Öresund Bridge, currently under construction. 6 kilometers of the new railway will run underground through the city centre, and is currently being excavated using TBM's. The purpose of the project is partly to reduce travel times between Malmö and the Danish capital Copenhagen, partly to increase capacity on the Scanian network by changing Malmö Central station from a terminus to a transit station. The work is projected to cost 9,45 billon Swedish kronor (1,05 billion Euros), and is scheduled for completion in 2011.
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The railway will start from a new partly underground station, built beneath Malmö Central station called Malmö Nedre. From there the railway will run in a tunnel to the new underground station Triangeln, built 25 meters underground in central Malmö. It then turns south until it reaches Holma, from where it will continue in an open shaft to the new station and development area Hyllie. Here two lines will branch out - one route will run west to connect with the Öresund link, while the other branch will connect to the Ystad and Trelleborg (Kontinentalbanan) lines.
