Ringsted railway station

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 Ringsted Banegård
Railway junction
Platform view of Ringsted station in 2011
General information
Location	Jernbanevej 1 DK-4100 Ringsted[1] Ringsted Municipality Denmark
Coordinates	55°26′17″N 11°47′11″E
Elevation	38 metres (125 ft)
Owned by	Banedanmark
Operated by	DSB[1]
Line(s)	Copenhagen–Fredericia/Taulov Line Copenhagen–Ringsted Line South Line Køge–Ringsted Line (closed 1963)
Platforms	3
Tracks	5
Construction
Architect	Fox, Henderson & Co. (1856) Knud Tanggaard Seest (1924)[2]
History
Opened	27 April 1856[3]
Rebuilt	1 June 1924[3]
Services
Preceding station 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 Roskilde towards Copenhagen Airport Copenhagen–Slagelse Regional train Sorø towards Slagelse
Location Ringsted Station Location within Denmark Show map of Denmark Ringsted Station Ringsted Station (Denmark Region Zealand) Show map of Denmark Region Zealand

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.^[3][2] 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,^{[lower-alpha 1]} 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.^[3]

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.^[2]

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

• Trains portal
• Architecture portal
• Denmark portal

• List of railway stations in Denmark
• Rail transport in Denmark

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. "Ringsted Station" (in Danish). DSB. Retrieved 27 January 2023.
2. Hegner Christiansen, Jørgen. "K.T. Seest" (in Danish). Kunstindeks Danmark & Weilbach Kunstnerleksikon. Retrieved 27 January 2023.
3. "Ringsted Station". danskejernbaner.dk (in Danish). 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.

Bibliography

• Jensen, Niels (1972). Danske Jernbaner 1847–1892 (in Danish). Copenhagen: J.Fr. Clausens Forlag. ISBN 87-11-01765-1.

External links

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