Malmö Central Station (Malmö C)

Malmö Central Station (Malmö centralstation)

Malmö Central Station or in Swedish: Malmö centralstation is also called: Malmö C, is the main railway station serving the city of Malmö, Sweden. It is located in central Malmö, situated between the historic city centre and the port of Malmö. Opened on the Southern Main Line in 1856, it serves approximately 17 million passengers per year.

With the opening of the City Tunnel in 2010, the station began through services connecting south to Copenhagen via the Öresund Line, to stations north on the Southern Main Line, saving at least 15 minutes for through passengers.

Malmö Central Station Description

The central station has ten tracks. Four tracks are underground at the northernmost point of the City Tunnel, and 6 tracks are above ground in the old terminus station. It is marked as a listed building. The station consists mainly of two perpendicular buildings above ground - the central hall and the terminus train shed - and a newer glass corridor in between these two older buildings.

The glass corridor was inaugurated in 2010 as part of the City Tunnel project in order to connect the bus stops south of the station with the platforms, the escalators to the lower level platforms and the taxi station located just north of the station. Along the corridor are SJ and Skånetrafiken ticket sales, exchange offices and kiosks, making it the main waiting area of the station. The central hall which previously filled that function is since 2011 a food court with a number of restaurants and smaller shops.

The underground platforms can also be accessed from an entrance located just west of the station at the Anna Lindh's place.

Malmö Central Station History

Malmö Station was first opened in 1856, coinciding with the opening of the Malmö–Lund railway. At the time, the area was located in the outer edges of the city, but was convenient to Copenhagen-bound ferries, which loaded and unloaded in the Inre hamnen right in front of the station building.

The building was nearly destroyed ten years later in a fire, on 14 December 1866. When the building was reconstructed, the bell tower was kept. That part, between the platforms and the square Centralplan, was reopened in 1872.

More and more lines were built and consequently more and more tracks and train sheds were needed. The new train shed with four new tracks opened in 1891. The Malmö-Kontinentens Järnväg from Malmö to Trelleborg was built in 1898. In 1926, Malmö Central Station became the station's official name.

Though the train shed was built as a terminus, there was also a single through-line for freight next to the station building, allowing hopper wagons to access the port, where they served a large granary plant producing most of the flour for baking in the counties of Skåne and Halland.

In 2000, both local and long-distance trains began running directly to Denmark via the new Öresund Bridge. Malmö became the centre of the new Öresund train regional railway system spanning eastern Denmark and much of southern Sweden, which in 2009 became integrated with local buses and trains in most of its service areas. The trains were, however, forced to reverse direction in Malmö’s terminal station, which created delays for passengers travelling to Denmark from Lund and further north, and restricted the frequency of service, as each train had to both enter and leave Malmö by the same tracks.

This situation was solved with the opening of the City Tunnel in December 2010, finally allowing through traffic. All passenger traffic to/from Denmark now uses the tunnel, and most local trains use it, too, terminating instead at Hyllie station at the other end of the tunnel if not going beyond Malmö.

The tunnel tracks make up tracks 1-4, and most traffic has shifted to this lower level of Malmö Central Station. The terminus station was renovated at the same time to accommodate occasional long-distance trains including some services to Stockholm and the night express to Berlin. Its tracks are numbered 5-10 (six tracks as opposed to the original seven: one track was torn up during renovation to allow for more commercial space adjacent to the Centralplan bus terminal). The adjacent train shed previously used for local Pågatågen was demolished in its entirety to allow for an extension to the Centralplan, its traffic taken over by the City Tunnel.

Malmö Central Station Overview

Malmö Central Station Location:
Skeppsbron 1
211 20 Malmö
Malmö Municipality
Sweden
Malmö Central Station Coordinates: 55°36′34″N 13°00′03″E
Malmö Central Station Elevation: 3 m (9.8 ft)
Malmö Central Station Owned By: Jernhusen
Malmö Central Station Operated By: Trafikverket
Malmö Central Station Line(s):
West Coast Line
City Tunnel & Öresund Line
Southern Main Line
Malmö Central Station Distance: 617.8 km (383.9 mi) from Stockholm C
Malmö Central Station Platforms: 6
Malmö Central Station Tracks: 10
Malmö Central Station Construction Structure Type: Underground (Tracks 1-4)
Malmö Central Station Above ground (Tracks 5-10)
Malmö Central Station Platform Levels: 2
Malmö Central Station Bicycle Facilities: Yes
Malmö Central Station Accessible: Yes
Malmö Central Station IATA code: XFP
Malmö Central Station Opened: 1856
Malmö Central Station Passengers: 43 300 per weekday

Preceding Station .....                                                              SJ .....                                               Following Station

Lund Central towards Stockholm Central .....                           Southern Main Line .....               Copenhagen Airport towards Copenhagen Central

                                                                                                         EuroNight .....                                 Copenhagen Airport towards Hamburg or Berlin

Lund Central towards Gothenburg Central                              West Coast Line                            Terminus

Preceding Station                                                                    Long Distance Trains...          Following Station

Lund Central towards Stockholm Central .....                           Snälltåget                                       Terminus

                                                                                                         Snälltåget seasonal .....                Ørestad towards Berlin Hbf

Lund Central towards Duved .....                                                Snälltåget .....                                Terminus
                                                                                                         seasonal

Preceding Station .....                                                             Øresundståg .....                            Following Station

Triangeln towards Østerport .....                                                Øresund Line‎ .....                           Lund Terminus

                                                                                                         West Coast Line .....                      Lund towards Gothenburg Central

                                                                                                        Copenhagen-Kalmar Line.....       Lund towards Kalmar

                                                                                                       Copenhagen-Karlskrona Line ..... Lund towards Karlskrona

Preceding Station .....                    Pågatågen .....    Following Station

Triangeln towards Hyllie .....              Line 3 .....            Burlövtowards Helsingborg
Triangeln towards Hyllie .....              Line 4 .....            Burlöv towards Kristianstad
Triangeln towards Hyllie .....              Line 4B .....          Lund towards Hässleholm
Triangeln towards Simrishamn .....  Line 6 .....            Burlöv towards Lund
Triangeln towards Hyllie .....              Line 8 .....            Burlöv towards Åstorp
Triangeln towards Trelleborg .....      Line 9 .....            Burlöv towards Helsingborg
Triangeln towards Malmö C              Line 11 .....          Lomma towards Kävlinge
Terminus .....                                        Line 11 .....          Östervärn towards Kävlinge