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Värtabanan

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Värtabanan
km
year
closed
Mälarbanan to Västerås
0.0
Tomteboda
1.2
Stockholm North
(Norrtull)
1.8
Norrtulls
1924
Uppsalavägen
2.3
Stallmästaregården
1893
Roslagsvägen
2.5
Albano
1913/1969
1996
3.5
Ugglevikskällan
1903
4.0
Skuggan
(Kattrumpedalen)
1913
4.8
Värtan
5.0
Värtans hållplats
1910
Spårvagn to Lidingövägen
2012
5.5
Värtan
1913
Frihamnen container port
Loudden oil terminal
Sources:[1][2]

Värtabanan is a railway just north of urban Stockholm, from Tomteboda via Norra Djurgården to Värtahamnen. It is nowadays mainly used for freight traffic linking Stockholm to the container port at Frihamnen, although a passenger service was operated on this line until 1913. A train ferry service also operated on Värtabanan between 1967 and 1975 (Stockholm – Naantali) and again from 1989 until the start of 2012 (Stockholm – Turku).

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Sources[edit]

  1. ^ "Bandelsregister".
  2. ^ "Trafikverket".