Continental Line

The Continental Line (Swedish: Kontinentalbanan) is a 32-kilometre (20 mi) long railway between Malmö and Trelleborg in Sweden. At Trelleborg the railway terminates at a railway ferry quay allowing rail cars to be ferried to Sassnitz in Germany. A part of the railway is also part of the line between Malmö and Copenhagen via the Oresund Bridge. The first seven kilometers of the line are double track.

Continental Line
Vintage train in Trelleborg harbour (2013)
Overview
OwnerBanverket
Termini
  • Malmö C
  • Trelleborg C, Trelleborg F
Service
TypeRailway
SystemSwedish railways
Operator(s)Green Cargo
DB Cargo
SJ
Skåne commuter rail
Skånetrafiken
DSB
DSB Øresund
History
Opened1898
Technical
Line length32 kilometres (20 mi)
Track length39 kilometres (24 mi)
Number of tracksDouble or Single
CharacterFreight and passenger
Track gauge1,435 mm (4 ft 8+12 in)
Electrification15 kV  16.7 Hz AC
Route map

All services north
Malmö C
Triangeln
Hyllie
Øresund Line to Copenhagen
Ystad Line to Ystad
Svågertorp
Ingelstad
Grevie
Trelleborg
Baltic Sea
Ferry services to Rostock, Saßnitz, Świnoujście

Local passenger trains between Malmö and Trelleborg serves the railway with several stops along the route, and uses the old central station building of Trelleborg near the ferry port. The passenger service began to run again in the fall of 2015, after 40 years of non-existence.

Swedish train operator Snälltåget formerly operated a direct sleeper train service between Malmö and Berlin (previously known as Berlin Night Express), using the now defunct ferry link from Trelleborg to Sassnitz, but this service now travels to Germany overland through Denmark.

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