The Bohus Line () is a

railway Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in railway track, tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel railway track, rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of ...

line from

Gothenburg Gothenburg ( ; ) is the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, second-largest city in Sweden, after the capital Stockholm, and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated by the Kattegat on the west coast of Sweden, it is the gub ...

via

Uddevalla Uddevalla is a Stad (Sweden), town in Västra Götaland County, Sweden. It’s the seat of Uddevalla Municipality. In 2015, it had a population of 34,781, making it the largest town fully in Bohuslän. Uddevalla is located where the river Bäveån ...

and Munkedal to

Strömstad Strömstad is a Urban areas in Sweden, locality and the seat of Strömstad Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden with 6,288 inhabitants in 2010. For historical reasons, Strömstad is called a Stad (Sweden), ''city'' despite its small popu ...

. The line is single track and electrified at . Bohus Line has seventeen stations;

, Skee, Överby, Tanum, Rabbalshede, Hällevadsholm,

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, Munkedal,

C, Uddevalla Östra, Ljungskile, Svenshögen, Stenungsund, Stora Höga, Kode,

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and

History

The Bohus Line was opened in stages between 1903 and 1907 and was originally supposed to continue northwards from Skee and connect to Østfold Line in Norway but when Sweden-Norway dissolved the project was cancelled. It serves an important purpose to the communities it goes through and is very busy with many passenger services especially between Gothenburg & Stenungsund/Uddevalla and some cargo services between

and Munkedal. The Northern half between

and

is in pretty bad condition and only allows speeds up to 90 km/h (with the exception of Skee-Strömstad which got partially rebuilt in 2009 along with the expansion of Highway E6). Gothenburg-Uddevalla was modernized in the 1990s.

Future

Double tracks between Gothenburg and Stenungsund or Uddevalla has been highly requested from both

Västra Götaland County Västra Götaland County () is a county or '' län'' on the western coast of Sweden. The county is the second most populous of Sweden's counties and it comprises 49 municipalities (''kommuner''). Its population of 1,616,000 amounts to 17% of S ...

and the municipalities and communities which it passes through. Some have also wished for the Station in

to be moved to the larger community of

Kungälv Kungälv () is a cities of Sweden, city and the seat of Kungälv Municipality in Västra Götaland County, Sweden. It is also a part of Greater Gothenburg Metropolitan Area. It had 22,768 inhabitants in 2010. In 2021, the main Kungälv - Ytterby - ...

. New Stations in

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and Säve have been requested by those communities. The Bohus Line connects to the Lysekil Line in Munkedal and the Älvsborg Line in Uddevalla and the Western Main Line among others in Gothenburg.

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* Railway lines in Sweden {{Sweden-transport-stub

History

Future

See also

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