Götaland Line
The Götaland Line is a planned high-speed railway planned to be built between Södertälje and Gothenburg in Sweden, past Linköping and Jönköping. The planned length is about. The speed is planned to be. The line is named after the Swedish historical region of Götaland.
It will, if built, be used for passenger trains going between Gothenburg-Stockholm, Gothenburg-Borås, Malmö-Linköping-Stockholm, Linköping-Stockholm and more connections. The travel time Gothenburg-Stockholm is expected to be 2:00 to 2:15 compared to 2:45 to 3:00 today. The travel time Linköping-Stockholm would be cut by 40 min, Jönköping-Borås by 40 min and Gothenburg-Borås by 20 min. A more dense schedule is possible as well. It is also planned to have railway stations at the Göteborg Landvetter Airport and the Stockholm-Skavsta Airport. An additional objective is to free up capacity for Cargo rail on the existing rail network. The disadvantage with the project is the big cost.
Current planning stage
The railway has a detailed plan between Gothenburg-Borås, and between Linköping-Södertälje. Detailed planning is being done between Borås-Linköping. It was announced in August 2012 that the Swedish government had decided to proceed with Ostlänken. The announcement also contained details of the proposed double-tracking upgrade between Mölnlycke and Bollebygd as part of the programme, though the announcement didn't say what has happened to the original plan to build a station on the presumably-discontinued section of high-speed line between Mölnlycke and Bollebygd serving Göteborg Landvetter Airport.The railway is covered under Sverigeförhandlingen, a government negotiation process providing funding for high-speed rail projects in Sweden.
Gothenburg–Borås
The total cost of the 60 km project is 48.5 billion SEK in 2021/2024 prices, with completion in 2038.The Gothenburg–Borås railway was divided into three sections: Almedal–Mölnlycke, Mölnlycke–Bollebygd, and Bollebygd–Borås. The total cost of the project was expected to be 33 billion SEK at 2015 price levels.
- Almedal–Mölnlycke and Bollebygd–Borås: On both sections, work on selecting a corridor in which the railway will run was expected to be finished in 2017. However, this has been affected by the work with Sverigeförhandlingen.
- Mölnlycke–Bollebygd: A corridor was selected in 2007., a railway plan, where the exact route will be selected, is being drafted. Originally, construction was planned to begin in 2020.
Borås–Linköping
, a strategic choice of measures study for the Borås–Linköping section is expected to be finished in early 2018. An advance copy of the study was released on 15 February 2017.Europabanan, the high-speed line to Malmö, is planned to branch from Götalandsbanan in Jönköping. In Jönköping, the railway will pass south of the city centre, where a new station will be built.