IntroductionThis blog post is about the High Speed Rail of the three Scandinavian countries. First of all we need to find out which countries they are. The three Scandinavian countries are Norway, Sweden and Denmark. The most exciting part of today's blog post will be Denmark as it is the newest. This post will talk about the destinations, history and trains of the Scandinavian High Speed Rail. Denmark's High Speed RailFor an extremely long time, Denmark didn't have High Speed Rail. The Danish government called it the Hour Model and this was the first High Speed link but even before that up to the year 2000, Denmark had other small tracks that came from Germany and Sweden. The Hour Model only began planning in 2013 and 2014 and there were 3 different stages to the construction. The first stage is the most popular one. It is the Copenhagen to Ringsted line which is an new 250 km/h train line between Copenhagen and Ringsted and the first stage will also include the upgrade of the Ringsted to Odense line. This will be in place from 2022. The second stage is from Aarhus to Aalborg which are a bit far from Copenhagen and a long while from Odense. Again, this stage is just upgrading the existing track to high speed rail and trains will be able to run 200 km/h to 250 km/h. The last stage is to connect everything altogether. This means you could take one train from Copenhagen to Aalborg. The last stage will be from Odense to Aarhus. This line is the most expensive and most complex bit of the line to complete and was thought to be started in 2020 but now its even harder and has been pushed back all the way to 2030. Sweden's High Speed RailCurrently, most Swedish trains run at 200 km/h but it isn't really considered as high speed rail. There are 2 series of trains that are allowed to run at 205 km/h but that is all. Other trains are also being considered as the fleet that will be able to run at 305 km/h. Existing track is soon being upgraded from 200 km/h capable to 250 km/h capable meaning existing track will soon be high speed. Other new tracks are being built to be even up to 320 km/h. Norway's High Speed RailCurrently, Norway only has 1 high speed rail link that opened in 1998. It is a 64 kilometre track between Oslo and a little town named Eidsvoll. The train also goes through the airport and acts like a shuttle from the city to the airport. The reason why the government even bothered to create a high speed track is because the airport is 48 kilometres away. Strangely enough, you have to leave the region of Oslo to get to Oslo airport. This soon won't be a lone track in Norway it will be greeted by another track named the Follo line. It is a 22 km tunnel from Oslo to a small suburban city named Ski. Talk about being green, this amazing track will remove 5800 car journeys a day, 750 trucks a day and eliminate more than 5,000 tons of C02 per year!
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