Billund railway line explained

Billund railway line
Type:Passenger rail
System:Banedanmark
Status:Cancelled
Locale:Billund, Denmark
Start:Jelling
End:Billund
Stations:3
Open:2023 [1]
Character:single track
Linelength Km:19
Speed Km/H:120

The Billund railway line was a planned railway line of 19 km to connect the existing Danish rail network at Jelling to Billund Airport and Billund itself to cater to the Legoland resort there.

Background

In 2014 planning of the line was agreed, with a projected cost of 734 million DKK.[2] The planned opening of the line was estimated to be 2020. However, in 2021, the Danish government cancelled the project.[3]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Billundbanen: Giver fortsat usikkerhed for lokale. tvsyd.dk. 13 March 2019. Danish.
  2. Web site: Billund Airport to get railway connection The Post . cphpost.dk . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160602213620/http://cphpost.dk/news/national/billund-airport-to-get-railway-connection.html . 2016-06-02.
  3. Web site: The Copenhagen Post. 9 April 2021.

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