Thorsager railway station

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Thorsager
railway station
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Thorsager station in 2019
General information
LocationStationsvej 48
8410 Rønde [1]
Denmark
Coordinates 56°21′22″N10°26′53″E / 56.35611°N 10.44806°E / 56.35611; 10.44806
Owned by Banedanmark
Operated by Aarhus Letbane [2]
Line(s) Grenaa Line
Platforms1
Tracks1
Construction
Architect Niels Peder Christian Holsøe [3]
History
Opened1 December 1877 [4]
30 April 2019 [5]
Closed22 May 1971 [4]
Services
Preceding station Aarhus Letbane Following station
Mørke
towards Odder or Mårslet
Line 1 Ryomgård
towards Grenaa or Hornslet
Location
Denmark adm location map.svg
Red pog.svg
Thorsager
Location within Denmark
Thorsager railway station

Thorsager station is a railway station serving the railway town of Thorsager on the peninsula of Djursland in Jutland, Denmark. [1]

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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. [4] It was closed in 1971, but reopened in 2019, since when 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

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. [4]

The station became unstaffed on 27 September 1964, and closed altogether 22 May 1971. [4] It reopened on 30 April 2019, after the Grenaa railway line had been 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. [5]

Architecture

The station building from 1877 was designed by the Danish architect Niels Peder Christian Holsøe (18261895), known for the numerous railway stations he designed across Denmark in his capacity of head architect of the Danish State Railways. [3]

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References

Citations

  1. 1 2 "Letbanen - Thorsager" (in Danish). Midttrafik . Retrieved 4 May 2023.
  2. 1 2 3 "Om Letbanen – Aarhus Letbane" (in Danish). Aarhus Letbane . Retrieved 4 May 2023.
  3. 1 2 Vigand Rasmussen. "N.P. Holsøe" (in Danish). Kunstindeks Danmark & Weilbach Kunstnerleksikon. Retrieved 24 October 2022.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 "Thorsager Station" (in Danish). danskejernbaner.dk. Retrieved 4 May 2023.
  5. 1 2 "Tusindvis af mennesker fejrede Letbanen" (in Danish). Aarhus Letbane . Retrieved 4 May 2023.

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