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Öresund Bridge between Denmark and Sweden to close for emergency services exercise

The Öresund Bridge linking Denmark and Sweden will be closed to motorway traffic from 7:45pm until 11pm on Thursday evening.

A file photo of the Öresund Bridge
A view at the Oresund Bridge with the flags of Sweden, left, and Denmark in the foreground 01 July 2000. The bridge-tunnel link between Denmark and Sweden was inaugurated Saturday by Queen Margrethe II of Denmark and King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden. The rail-and-road link connects the Danish capital Copenhagen with southern Sweden across the 16-kilometer wide Oresund strait. Soeren Bidstrup/Scanpix Nordfot . EPA PHOTO/NORDFOTO/SOEREN BIDSTRUP (Photo by SOEREN BIDSTRUP / SCANPIX DENMARK / AFP)

Emergency services are to conduct exercises in the tunnel section of the crossing as well as on the motorway, meaning it will be closed to cars, operator Øreseundsbron confirmed on Twitter.

Trains will still operate during the period, but on a reduced schedule. Rail passengers are advised to use Rejseplanen.dk or the Skånetrafiken app for travel updates.

Authorities are to practice their response to a major accident in the tunnel during the exercise, in which emergency services and rail personnel as well as around actors from Denmark and Sweden will take part.

Five such exercises have previously been conducted on the Öresund Bridge since it opened in 2000.

Around 20,000 vehicles and 200 trains use the crossing daily, connecting Danish capital Copenhagen with Malmö in Sweden.

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Copenhagen’s S-tog trains to be free for the day on 90th anniversary

The S-tog, the metropolitan railway that connects central Copenhagen and its outlying regions, will be completely free on Saturday April 6th to mark 90 years since it opened.

Copenhagen’s S-tog trains to be free for the day on 90th anniversary

Copenhagen’s distinctive red S-tog (suburban or S-trains) have been shuttling passengers in and out of the Danish capital for 90 years on April 6th.

The day will be marked with free travel for all passengers on the anniversary, which is a Saturday, national rail operator DSB says on its website.

Rail journeys won’t be the only giveaway on the day, with 10,000 free hindbærsnitte (raspberry slice) to be handed out to passengers at station 7-Eleven stores.

The Jernbaneorkester, the orchestra for railway workers, will play a concert at Copenhagen Central Station at 3pm.

Free travel will run all day: from midnight to 11:59pm, DSB says.

The first ever S-train ran between Frederiksberg Station and Klampenborg Station in Copenhagen’s northern suburbs in 1934.

Today’s S-train network consists of seven lines covering 85 stations, carrying around 350,000 passengers daily.

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