Coast-to-Coast Line

The Coast-to-Coast Line (Swedish: Kust till kust-banan) is a 410-kilometre (250 mi) long Y-shaped electric railway line between Gothenburg via Emmaboda to Kalmar and Karlskrona in southern Sweden.

[1] Between 2010 and 2013, the Swedish Transport Administration upgraded the 57-kilometre (35 mi) section from Emmaboda to Karlskrona, with the goal to reduce travel time from 40 to 33 minutes.

The upgrades included continuous welded rails, centralized traffic control, a new catenary system, new passing loops at Gullberna and Vissefjärda, upgrade of the passing loops at Spjutsbygd and Holmsjö, new platforms at Holmsjö Station, speeds up to 200 km/h (125 mph), 40 level crossings removed, 8 new tunnels and bridges, new track layout and signaling system at Emmaboda, and a rebuilt Karlskrona Station.

It is planned to be a part of a future high speed railway between Gothenburg and Stockholm, called Götalandsbanan.

The first part will be between Mölnlycke and Bollebygd including a tunnel station directly under the Göteborg Landvetter Airport.