Ry railway station

Not to be confused with Rye railway station (East Sussex).

Ry
railway station
Ry station in 2011
General information
Location	Klostervej 3 8680 Ry [1] Skanderborg Municipality Denmark
Coordinates	56°5′27″N9°45′32″E / 56.09083°N 9.75889°E / 56.09083; 9.75889
Elevation	31.2 metres (102 ft) [2]
Owned by	DSB (station infrastructure) [3] Banedanmark (rail infrastructure) [3]
Line(s)	Skanderborg-Skjern Line
Platforms	2
Tracks	2
Train operators	GoCollective [4]
Construction
Architect	N.P.C. Holsøe [5] Heinrich Wenck [6] Knud Tanggaard Seest [7]
History
Opened	2 May 1871 [2]
Services
Preceding station GoCollective Following station Laven towards Skjern Aarhus–Skjern Regional train Alken towards Aarhus Central
Location Ry Location within Denmark

Ry station is a railway station serving the railway town of Ry in East Jutland, Denmark. ^[1]

The station is located on the Skanderborg–Skjern railway line from Skanderborg to Skjern. The station opened on 2 May 1871 with the Skanderborg-Silkeborg section of the Skanderborg-Skjern railway. ^[2] The train services are currently operated by GoCollective which run frequent regional train services between Aarhus and Herning. ^[1]

Architecture

The station building was designed by the Danish architect Niels Peder Christian Holsøe. ^[5] It was later rebuilt by the Danish railway architects Heinrich Wenck ^[6] and Knud Tanggaard Seest. ^[7]

Gallery

• 
  Ry station at the end of the 20th century. Painting by Vilhelm Kyhn.
• 
  Station building of Ry station in 2012
• 
  Level crossing at Ry station in 2012

See also

• Trains portal
• Architecture portal
• Denmark portal

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

References

1. "Ry Station" (in Danish). GoCollective . Retrieved 20 April 2024.
2. Ry Station (Ry) on Danske Jernbaner
3. "Analyse af de danske jernbanestationer" (PDF) (in Danish). Ministry of Transport. April 2017. Retrieved 18 March 2025.
4. "Om GoCollective – Tog" (in Danish). GoCollective . Retrieved 20 April 2024.
5. Vigand Rasmussen. "N.P. Holsøe". Kunstindeks Danmark & Weilbach Kunstnerleksikon. Retrieved June 29, 2021.
6. Vigand Rasmussen. "Heinrich Wenck". Kunstindeks Danmark & Weilbach Kunstnerleksikon. Retrieved June 29, 2021.
7. Jørgen Hegner Christiansen. "K.T. Seest". Kunstindeks Danmark & Weilbach Kunstnerleksikon. Retrieved June 29, 2021.

Bibliography

• Jensen, Niels (1978). Østjyske jernbaner (in Danish). Copenhagen: J.Fr. Clausens Forlag. ISBN   87-11-03852-7.

External links

• (in Danish) Banedanmark – government agency responsible for maintenance and traffic control of most of the Danish railway network
• (in Danish) GoCollective – private public transport company operating bus and train services in Denmark
• (in Danish) Danske Jernbaner – website with information on railway history in Denmark