Classic route
Vendsyssel Line
Aalborg → Frederikshavn · Denmark
- Distance
- 85 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 1 h 12 min
- Average speed
- 71 km/h
- Top speed
- 120 km/h
- Operator
- DSB
- Train
- DSB regionaltog
- Countries
- Denmark
- In service since
- 1879
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
The last railway in Jutland, through Brønderslev and Hjørring to the ferry quays at Frederikshavn; it reached Aalborg itself in 1879, when the Limfjord bridge opened.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 1982499 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: DSB — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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