Glostrup railway station

Glostrup
S-train station
The station building in 2006
General information
LocationBanegårdspladsen 5
2600 Glostrup[1]
Glostrup Municipality
Denmark
Coordinates55°39′46.5″N 12°23′50″E / 55.662917°N 12.39722°E / 55.662917; 12.39722
Elevation14.0 metres (45.9 ft)[2]
Owned byDSB and Banedanmark
Line(s)West Line (Mainline)
Høje Taastrup Line (S-train)[3]
Platforms1 Island platform in use
Train operatorsDSB[3]
ConnectionsBus terminal
Construction
Bicycle facilitiesBicycle parking station[1]
AccessibleYes
ArchitectHeinrich Wenck (1918)[4]
Other information
Station codeGl[5]
WebsiteOfficial website Edit this at Wikidata
History
Opened26 June 1847 (Mainline)
17 June 1953 (S-train)
Closed2008 (Mainline)
Rebuilt1918
Electrified1953 (S-train)
1988 (Mainline)
Services
Preceding station S-train Following station
Albertslund
towards Høje Taastrup
 B Brøndbyøster
towards Farum
Bx
Peak hours
 Danshøj
towards Buddinge
Location
Glostrup station is located in Greater Copenhagen
Glostrup station
Glostrup station
Location within Greater Copenhagen
Glostrup station is located in Capital Region
Glostrup station
Glostrup station
Glostrup station (Capital Region)
Glostrup station is located in Denmark
Glostrup station
Glostrup station
Glostrup station (Denmark)
Map

Glostrup station is a suburban rail and former main line railway station serving the railway town/suburb of Glostrup west of Copenhagen, Denmark.[1] It is located close to the historical, administrative and commercial centre of Glostrup Municipality, but also serves Brøndbyvester in Brøndby Municipality, the boundary of which comes within a few hundred metres from the station. The station is connected to the nearby Glostrup Shopping Center via an underground walkway, the same walkway which is used to access the platforms.

Glostrup station is located on the Høje Taastrup radial of Copenhagen's S-train network, a hybrid commuter rail and rapid transit system serving Greater Copenhagen.[3] It is served regularly by trains on the B-line which have a journey time to central Copenhagen of around 20 minutes.[1] In front of the station is a major bus terminal from which local and express buses go in many directions.

The station opened in 1847 with the opening of the railway line from Copenhagen to Roskilde, and has been served by the S-train network since 1953.[6] Its second and current station building was built in 1918 to designs by the Danish architect Heinrich Wenck (1851–1936).[4]

Glostup station is one of the few remaining stations in Copenhagen that is an active rail freight destination. Sidings to industries west, south, and east of the station emerge from a small freight yard south of the long-distance tracks.

History

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Glostrup station opened on 26 June 1847 as one of the original intermediate stations on the new railway line from Copenhagen to Roskilde, the first railway line in the Kingdom of Denmark[a].[6] The centre of Glostrup was originally located by the church, but after the station opened the growth of the town took place further south close to the station around the street Stationsvej (the current Jernbanevej).[8]

Despite the explosive increase in traffic, the station's first modest station building existed for 70 years before being replaced by a larger station building in 1918.[2]

From 17 June 1953 to 26 May 1963 Glostrup was the western endpoint of the S-train network. After the S-train line was extended to Taastrup in 1963, trains on the long-distance tracks ceased calling at Glostrup, but the long-distance platform was kept for use during disturbances in the service.

Architecture

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The main entrance to the station building built with sandstone from Nexø on Bornholm.

The station's second and current station building was built in 1918 to designs by Danish architect Heinrich Wenck (1851–1936), 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.[4]

Facilities

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Inside the station's underpass there is a combined ticket office and convenience store operated by 7-Eleven.[1]

The station also has a bicycle parking station as well as a car park with approximately 40 parking spaces near the entrance to the railway station.[1]

Operations

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Glostrup station is served regularly by trains on the B-line of Copenhagen's S-train network which run between Høje Taastrup and Farum via central Copenhagen.[3]

From 2000 to early 2005, direct regional trains between Roskilde and Copenhagen Airport stopped at the long-distance platform at Glostrup, but this service was ceased in order to free up capacity on the congested long-distance tracks.[9]

Future

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The Glostrup light rail station almost finished in June 2024.

Construction has started on construction of the Ring 3 Light Rail, a planned electric light rail system crossing the lines of the S-train in Greater Copenhagen from Lundtofte to Ishøj. It is planned to start operation in year 2025. There will be a stop for the light rail at Glostrup station, and there are plans to build a new platform for regional trains along the mainline.[10]

Cultural references

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Aerial view of Glostrup station in 2018.

Both Glostrup station and the former goods terminal are used as locations in the 1975 Olsen-banden film The Olsen Gang on the Track. Glostrup station is for instance seen at 0:41:55 and again at 1:24:24.[11]

See also

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Notes

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  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.[7]

References

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Citations

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  1. ^ a b c d e f "Glostrup Station" (in Danish). DSB. Retrieved 20 March 2024.
  2. ^ a b "Glostrup Station". danskejernbaner.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 5 June 2024.
  3. ^ a b c d "S-tog" (in Danish). DSB. Retrieved April 13, 2024.
  4. ^ a b c Vigand Rasmussen. "Heinrich Wenck" (in Danish). Kunstindeks Danmark & Weilbachs Kunstnerleksikon. Retrieved 5 May 2024.
  5. ^ "Stationsforkortelser" (in Danish). DSB. Retrieved June 6, 2024.
  6. ^ a b Jensen 1972, p. 12-15.
  7. ^ Jensen 1972, p. 11.
  8. ^ Elers Koch, Niels, ed. (2018). "Glostrup Kommune". Trap Danmark (in Danish). Vol. 30 (6 ed.). Gads Forlag. pp. 126–173. ISBN 978-87-7181-100-1.
  9. ^ Myldretid.dk. ER-sæt 33 ved Trekroner st.
  10. ^ "Beslutningsgrundlag - Glostrup". www.glostrup.dk. Archived from the original on 2022-09-22. Retrieved 2022-09-18.
  11. ^ "Film 7 Olsen banden på sporet / Die Olsenbande stellt die Weichen". olsenbande-homepage.de (in German). Retrieved 5 October 2017.

Bibliography

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  • Jensen, Niels (1972). Danske Jernbaner 1847–1972 [Danish railways 1847–1972] (in Danish). Copenhagen: J. Fr. Clausens Forlag. ISBN 87-11-01765-1.
  • Poulsen, John; Christensen, Jens Ole; Thomassen, Peer; Zeeberg, Nils Kristian (1984). Københavns S-bane 1934-1984 (in Danish). Roskilde: Bane Bøger. ISBN 87-88632-01-6.
  • Poulsen, John; Larsen, Morten Flindt (2009). S-banen 1934-2009 (in Danish). Roskilde: Bane Bøger. ISBN 978-87-91434-20-4.
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