Glostrup railway station

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Glostrup
S-tog.svg
S-train station
Glostrup Station.JPG
General information
LocationBanegårdspladsen 5
2600 Glostrup [1]
Glostrup Municipality
Denmark
Coordinates 55°39′46.5″N12°23′50″E / 55.662917°N 12.39722°E / 55.662917; 12.39722
Owned by DSB
Platforms1 Island platform in use
ConnectionsBus terminal
History
Opened26 June 1847 (Mainline) 17 June 1953 (S-train)
Closed2008 (Mainline)
Electrified1953 (S-train), 1988 (Mainline)
Services
Preceding station S-tog.svg S-train Following station
Albertslund Bx
Peak hours
Danshøj
towards Buddinge
B Brøndbyøster
towards Farum
Aerial view of Glostrup station in 2018. Aerial view of Glostrup Station.jpg
Aerial view of Glostrup station in 2018.

Glostrup station is a commuter rail railway station serving the railway town/suburb of Glostrup west of Copenhagen, Denmark. [1]

Contents

It is located on the Høje Taastrup radial of Copenhagen's S-train network. It is located close to the historical, administrative and commercial centre of Glostrup Municipality, but also serves Brøndbyvester in Brøndby Municipality, whose boundary comes within a few hundred metres from the station.

In front of the station is a major bus terminal from which local and express buses go in many directions.

The station is connected to the nearby Glostrup Shopping Center via an underground walkway, the same walkway which is used to access the platforms.

Glostup 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

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 [lower-alpha 1] . [3]

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.

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. [4]

Future

Construction has started on construction of the Ring 3 Light Rail, going from Lundtofte to Ishøj and pass by Glostrup station. It is planned to operate in year 2025. There will be a stop for the Light Rail, and there are plans to build a new platform for regional trains along the mainline. [5]

Cultural references

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. [6]

See also

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. [2]

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References

Citations

  1. 1 2 "Glostrup Station" (in Danish). DSB. Retrieved 20 March 2024.
  2. Jensen 1972, p. 11.
  3. Jensen 1972, p. 12-15.
  4. Myldretid.dk. ER-sæt 33 ved Trekroner st.
  5. "Beslutningsgrundlag - Glostrup". www.glostrup.dk. Retrieved 2022-09-18.
  6. "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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