Hedehusene railway station

Hedehusene
Hedehusene
railway station
	Hedehusene station in 2014
General information
Location	Hovedgaden 437; 2640 Hedehusene[1]; Denmark
Coordinates	55°38′55″N 12°11′51″E
Owned by	Banedanmark
Operated by	DSB[1]
Line(s)	Copenhagen–Fredericia/Taulov Line
Platforms	3
Tracks	4
Construction
Architect	Heinrich Wenck (1917)
History
Opened	27 June 1847[2]
Rebuilt	1917
Services
Location
	Hedehusene railway station Location within Denmark Hedehusene railway station Hedehusene railway station (Capital Region)

Hedehusene railway station is a railway station serving the railway town of Hedehusene, a suburban town of Copenhagen in Zealand, Denmark.[1] It is located in the centre of the town, immediately adjacent to Hedehusene's bus station.

The station is located on the Copenhagen–Fredericia railway line between Copenhagen and Roskilde. It opened in 1847 with the opening of the Copenhagen-Roskilde railway line, the first railway line in the Kingdom of Denmark.[2] It offers direct regional train services to Copenhagen and Roskilde. The train services are operated by the national railway company DSB.[1]

History

DSB regional train to Copenhagen calling at Hedehusene in 1981.

Hedehusene station opened on 27 June 1847 with the opening of the new Copenhagen-Roskilde railway line from Copenhagen to Roskilde, the first railway line in the Kingdom of Denmark,[lower-alpha 1] which was completed for Det Sjællandske Jernbaneselskab (English: the Zealand Railway Company) by British engineering company William Radford.[2] The station originally opened as a railway halt where the railway line crossed the highway between Copenhagen and Roskilde.[2] It was promoted to a railway station in 1880.[2]

Architecture

The station building in 2008.

The current station building was built in 1917 to designs by Danish architect Heinrich Wenck, known for the numerous railway stations he designed across Denmark in his capacity of head architect of the Danish State Railways from 1894 to 1921.

Operations

DSB IC4-train calling at Hedehusene in 2017.

The train services are operated by the national railway company DSB. The station offers regional train services to Copenhagen, Elsinore, and Roskilde.[1]

Note

The first railway line in the Danish Monarchy was the Kiel-Altona railway line in the Duchy of Holstein which had been completed three years earlier. However, Holstein was later lost to the Kingdom of Prussia after the Second Schleswig War in 1864.[3]

References

Citations

"Hedehusene Station". dsb.dk (in Danish). DSB. Retrieved 20 April 2023.
Hedehusene Station (Hh) on Danske Jernbaner
"Die KBS 101.5 HAMBURG-ELMSHORN und die KBS 131 HAMBURG-KIEL/-FLENSBURG" (in German). Archived from the original on 2012-10-12. Retrieved 2012-05-29.

Bibliography

Jensen, Niels (1975). Nordsjællandske jernbaner (in Danish). Copenhagen: J.Fr. Clausens Forlag. ISBN 87-11-03879-9.
Jensen, Niels (1978). Vestsjællandske jernbaner (in Danish). Copenhagen: J.Fr. Clausens Forlag. ISBN 87-11-03671-0.

External links

(in Danish) Banedanmark – government agency responsible for maintenance and traffic control of most of the Danish railway network
(in Danish) DSB – largest Danish train operating company
(in Danish) Danske Jernbaner – website with information on railway history in Denmark

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[4] The first railway line in the Danish Monarchy was the Kiel-Altona railway line in the Duchy of Holstein which had been completed three years earlier. However, Holstein was later lost to the Kingdom of Prussia after the Second Schleswig War in 1864.[3]

[DSBHedehuseneStation-1] "Hedehusene Station". dsb.dk (in Danish). DSB. Retrieved 20 April 2023.

[DanskeJernbaner-2] Hedehusene Station (Hh) on Danske Jernbaner

[3] "Die KBS 101.5 HAMBURG-ELMSHORN und die KBS 131 HAMBURG-KIEL/-FLENSBURG" (in German). Archived from the original on 2012-10-12. Retrieved 2012-05-29.