Ringsted railway station

Ringsted Station

Ringsted Banegård
Railway junction
Platform view of Ringsted station in 2011
General information
LocationJernbanevej 1
DK-4100 Ringsted[1]
Ringsted Municipality
Denmark
Coordinates55°26′17″N 11°47′11″E / 55.43806°N 11.78639°E / 55.43806; 11.78639
Elevation38.0 metres (124.7 ft)[2]
Owned byBanedanmark
Operated byDSB[1]
Line(s)
Platforms3
Tracks5
Construction
ArchitectFox, Henderson & Co. (1856)
Knud Tanggaard Seest (1924)[3]
History
Opened27 April 1856[2]
Rebuilt1 June 1924[2]
Services
Preceding station Danish State Railways DSB Following station
Køge North
towards Copenhagen Central
 Copenhagen-Aalborg
InterCity
 Sorø
towards Aalborg
Roskilde
towards Østerport
 Copenhagen–Esbjerg
InterCity
 Sorø
towards Esbjerg
Copenhagen Central
Terminus
 Copenhagen–Odense–Hamburg
EuroCity
 Odense
towards Hamburg Hbf
Borup
towards Helsingør
 Elsinore–Copenhagen–Roskilde–Næstved
Regional train
 Glumsø
towards Næstved
Roskilde
towards Copenhagen Airport
 Copenhagen–Slagelse
Regional train
 Sorø
towards Slagelse
Location
Ringsted Station is located in Denmark
Ringsted Station
Ringsted Station
Location within Denmark
Ringsted Station is located in Denmark Region Zealand
Ringsted Station
Ringsted Station
Ringsted Station (Denmark Region Zealand)
Map

Ringsted railway station (Danish: Ringsted Station or Ringsted Banegård) is a railway station serving the town of Ringsted in central Zealand, Denmark.[1] It is located in the centre of the town, on the southern edge of the historic town centre, and immediately adjacent to the Ringsted bus station.

Ringsted station is an important railway junction where the main line Copenhagen–Fredericia, Copenhagen–Ringsted, and South Line railway lines all meet. The station opened in 1856, and its second and current station building designed by the architect Knud Tanggaard Seest was inaugurated in 1924.[2][3] The station offers direct Intercity rail services to Funen, Jutland and Copenhagen, as well as regional rail services to Copenhagen, Odense and Næstved, all operated by the national railway company DSB.[1]

History

The old (left) and new (right) station buildings photographed in 1925.

Ringsted railway station opened on 27 April 1856, as the Copenhagen–Roskilde railway line from Copenhagen to Roskilde, the first railway line in the Kingdom of Denmark,[a] was prolonged from Roskilde to the port city of Korsør on the west coast of Zealand by the Great Belt in 1856.[5]

With the increasing traffic, the original station building from 1856 became too small, and in 1924 the second and current station building was inaugurated.[2]

On 31 May 2019, a new high-speed railway line between Copenhagen and Ringsted via the new Køge North railway station was inaugurated.[6]

Architecture

The second and present station building from 1925 was designed by the Danish architect Knud Tanggaard Seest who was the head architect of the Danish State Railways from 1922 to 1949.[3]

Cultural references

Ringsted railway station is used as a location in the 1942 Danish comedy film Frk. Vildkat Ut is also used as a location in an episode of DR television series Rejseholdet.[7]

See also

Notes and References

Notes

  1. ^ The first railway line in the then Danish Monarchy was the Kiel-Altona railway line in the Duchy of Holstein which had been completed three years earlier. However, the Duchy of Holstein was later lost to the Kingdom of Prussia after the Second Schleswig War in 1864, and that railway line is today part of the German rail network.[4]

Citations

  1. ^ a b c d "Ringsted Station" (in Danish). DSB. Retrieved 27 January 2023.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Ringsted Station". danskejernbaner.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 27 January 2023.
  3. ^ a b c Hegner Christiansen, Jørgen. "K.T. Seest" (in Danish). Kunstindeks Danmark & Weilbach Kunstnerleksikon. Retrieved 27 January 2023.
  4. ^ Jensen 1972, p. 11.
  5. ^ "Jernbanen KBH-Korsør" (in Danish). Kutlurstyrelsen. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 16 December 2014.
  6. ^ "Denmark opens first high-speed rail line, but commuters must wait for faster journeys". The Local. 2019-05-31. Archived from the original on 2019-05-31.
  7. ^ "Ringsted Station". danskefilm.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 15 May 2024.

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