Løgten railway station

Løgten station is a railway station serving the railway town and suburb of Løgten north of Aarhus on the peninsula of Djursland in Jutland, Denmark.^[1]

Løgten
railway station
Løgten station in 2012
General information
Location	Hjelmagervej 8541 Skødstrup[1] Aarhus Municipality Denmark
Coordinates	56°16′32″N 10°19′02″E
Owned by	Banedanmark
Operated by	Aarhus Letbane[2]
Line(s)	Grenaa Line
Platforms	1
Tracks	1
History
Opened	1 December 1877[3]
Services
Preceding station Aarhus Letbane Following station Skødstrup towards Odder or Mårslet Line 1 Hornslet towards Grenaa or Hornslet
Location Løgten Location within Denmark

The station is located on the Grenaa railway line between Aarhus and Grenaa. It opened in 1877 with the opening of the Aarhus-Ryomgård section of the railway line.^[3] Since 2019, the station has been served by the Aarhus light rail system, a tram-train network combining tram lines in the city of Aarhus with operation on railway lines in the surrounding countryside.^[2]

History

Stadler Tango light rail vehicle from Aarhus light rail calling at Løgten station in 2019.

The station opened on 1 December 1877 as the railway company Østjyske Jernbane (ØJJ) opened a branch line from Aarhus to Ryomgård on the Randers-Ryomgaard-Grenaa Line from Randers to Grenaa. Just a few years later the trains starting running directly between Grenaa and Aarhus, with the Ryomgård-Randers section being reduced to a branch line used mostly for rail freight transport until it was closed altogether on 2 May 1971.

From 2016 to 2019, the station was temporarily closed along with the Grenaa railway line while it was being reconstructed and electrified to form part of the Aarhus light rail system, a tram-train network combining tram lines in the city of Aarhus with operation on railway lines in the surrounding countryside.^[2] Since 2019, the station has been served by Line L1 of the Aarhus light rail network, operated by the multinational transportation company Keolis.^[4]

Architecture

Løgten station in 2019.

The station building from 1877 was designed by the Danish architect Niels Peder Christian Holsøe (1826–1895), known for the numerous railway stations he designed across Denmark in his capacity of head architect of the Danish State Railways.^[5] It was torn down in 1978.^[3]

See also

• Trains portal
• Architecture portal
• Denmark portal

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

References

1. "Letbanen - Løgten" (in Danish). Midttrafik. Retrieved 20 October 2022.
2. "Om Letbanen – Aarhus Letbane" (in Danish). Aarhus Letbane. Retrieved 21 October 2022.
3. "Løgten Station" (in Danish). danskejernbaner.dk. Retrieved 30 November 2022.
4. "Tusindvis af mennesker fejrede Letbanen" (in Danish). Aarhus Letbane. Retrieved 24 October 2022.
5. Vigand Rasmussen. "N.P. Holsøe" (in Danish). Kunstindeks Danmark & Weilbach Kunstnerleksikon. Retrieved 24 October 2022.

External links

• (in Danish) Aarhus Letbane
• (in Danish) Midttrafik