Road The road connection consists of: •
European route E47 on the Danish side. •
Autobahn A1 (European routes
E 47 and
E22) on the German side, and the two-lane
Bundesstraße 207/
E 47 on the northernmost section. An additional of motorway was completed by 2008, still leaving the last a two-lane road.
Railway The rail connection consists of: • of
double track from
Copenhagen to
Vordingborg; maximum speed 160 to 180 km/h (99 to 112 mph); electrified for to
Ringsted • of
single track from Vordingborg to
Rødby; maximum speed • of single track
from Puttgarden to Lübeck • of double track
from Lübeck to Hamburg,
electrified. Until 2019, three to five
EuroCity trains a day in each direction used
train ferries to provide passenger services between Copenhagen and Hamburg, operated with
DBAG Class 605 trains by
Deutsche Bahn (out of service since 2017) and Danish
IC3 trains. With the completion of the
Great Belt Bridge freight trains are no longer directed via Rødby-Puttgarden, but via
Funen and
Jutland. Since the end of 2019, passenger trains have also used this route, which is longer but around 20 minutes faster and allows longer trains. Only some of the IC3 trains were capable of going to Germany. These current bridges and tunnels are part of the connection: •
Masnedsund Bridge and
Storstrøm Bridge, Sealand/Falster (rail) •
Farø Bridges, Sealand/Falster (motorway E47) •
Frederick IX Bridge, Falster/Lolland (two-lane road and rail) •
Guldborgsund Tunnel, Falster/Lolland (motorway E47) •
Rødbyhavn (harbour, Denmark) • Puttgarden (harbour, Germany) •
Fehmarn Sound bridge, Fehmarn/Germany (two-lane road E47 and rail) == High-speed railway under construction ==