Railway Gazette: Ringsted expansion launched

01 February 1998

DANISH rail infrastructure authority Banestyrelsen launched a public consultation on January 12 into options for increasing capacity on the 64 km København - Ringsted main line running west from the capital. The Folketing passed a law last May authorising the start of planning for the project.

Railway Gazette: Capacity boost is needed

29 October 2008

DENMARK: September 22 saw the start of a public enquiry into plans by the national rail authority Trafikstyrelsen into ways of expanding capacity on the country's busiest line between København and Ringsted...

After considering a number of alternatives, the government selected two options for further evaluation in March 2007. Adding a fifth track on the existing line to Høje Tåstrup, remodelling at Roskilde and four-tracking between Adamshøj and Ringsted would cost DKr5bn. But this would only accommodate four or five extra trains per hour, and the extra capacity would be used up by 2017. The alternative is to build a 64 km double-track line from Ny Ellebjerg to Kværkby alongside the Holbæk motorway and then parallelling the existing line into Ringsted. This would cost DKr9bn, but could accommodate up to 13 trains/h...

The public enquiry is due to be completed by December 1, and the government is expected to make a formal decision between the two options during the second half of 2009.

Railway Gazette: ETCS Level 2 for entire Danish network

19 December 2008

DENMARK: Banedanmark has announced plans to replace all signalling on the country's national rail network by ERTMS over the next 12 years...

The favoured option, which has been presented to the government for formal approval, will see all main lines and branches equipped with ETCS Level 2... All lineside signals will be removed, and a completely new set of operational rules will be developed...

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International Railway Journal, March, 2009

THE Danish government has approved by a large majority plans to invest nearly DKr 100 billion ($US 17.2 billion) in transport infrastructure between 2010 and 2020. Most of the investment is destined for public transport, reflecting the need to tackle the investment backlog and provide additional capacity to cope with projected increases in demand.

Under the plan, infrastructure manager Banedanmark will invest DKr 24 billion in a nationwide rollout of the European Rail Traffic Management System (ERTMS), which will replace existing systems by 2020. Initially ERTMS will be installed on the Copenhagen-Malmo (Sweden) Oresund link to coincide with the opening Malmo Citytunnel, which will be equipped from the outset with ERTMS...

As part of the one-hour model, a new 200km/h line will be constructed between Copenhagen and Ringsted with an intermediate station at Koge. The DKr 10 billion line will open in 2018, when the Fehmarn Bridge between Denmark and Germany is due to be completed.

Railway Gazette: Consultants appointed for København capacity increase

30 June 2009

DENMARK: Infrastructure manager Banedanmark has appointed Atkins and Grontmij Carl Bro as design and engineering consultants for a DKr800m project to increase capacity on the western approach to København's main station...