Spårväg City

Ladugårdslandsviken Ferry Services & Spårväg City

Legend Sergels Torg Kungsträdgården Norrmalmstorg Only used by Djurgårdslinjen Kungsträdgården T Strömkajen Nybroplan Skeppsholmsbron Styrmansgatan Djurgårdsbron Djurgårdsbron (60 m) Nordic Museum/Vasa Museum Hazeliusporten Skeppsholmen brygga z. Depot Falkenbergsgatan Skeppsbron Allmänna Gränd Brygg / Liljevalchs/Gröna Lund Skansen/Djurgårdsslätten Slussen turning loop Skansen Beckholmsbron Djurgårdsskolan Waldemarsviken Bellmansro Saltsjön Waldemarsudde

Spårväg City is a tram line in central Stockholm, inaugurated in 2010. It is the first tram line in regular traffic in central Stockholm since 1967. The service is run by AB Stockholms Spårvägar for Storstockholms Lokaltrafik, using the name "Route 7" ("Linje 7").

It is essentially an elongation of Djurgårdslinjen, which has been operated with historical cars since 1991 between Norrmalmstorg and Waldemarsudde. Djurgårdslinjen was first considered to be just a museum-oturist line, but has proven to be in much demand also by regular travels. Plans are to build the Spårväg City to reach from Kungsholmen in the west to the Lidingö bridge in the east, where it is suggested to be connected to Lidingöbanan.

The regular tram service between Sergels torg and Waldemarsudde started on 23 August 2010 with six modern low floor trams of type A34, which is the Swedish designation for the Flexity Classic. The cars are a dark, almost black, brown colour with gold stripes, as opposed to the traditional light blue trams of Stockholm prior to 1967.

Djurgårdslinjen

AB Stockholms Spårvägar will also continue driving the museum trams on the original Norrmalmstorg - Skansen line that opened in 1991. This line is called "Djurgårdslinjen" or "Linje 7N" (i.e. Line 7N, "N" for the destination Norrmalmstorg).

Controversy

The building of the line has been somewhat controversial, as the opposition in the Municipal Assembly (kommunfullmäktige) claims the line is too expensive and that it only serves well-off areas of Östermalm. It has been nicknamed "NK-expressen", since it goes directly from prestigious Strandvägen to the fashionable department store Nordiska Kompaniet.

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Urban public transport networks and systems in Sweden
Commuter rail	Gothenburg Stockholm Scania
Semi commuter rail	Stockholm Arlanda Express Roslagsbanan Saltsjöbanan Upptåget Elsewhere Östgötapendeln Pågatågen Uppsalapendeln Västtågen
Rapid transit	Stockholm
Trams/Light rail	Gothenburg Norrköping Stockholm (Djurgårdslinjen Lidingöbanan Nockebybanan Spårväg City Tvärbanan)
Trolleybuses	Landskrona
Ferries	Stockholm Gothenburg