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Train routes in Denmark
16 routes · classic 13 · night train 2 · heritage 1
16 routes cross Denmark in the World Train Map atlas. The longest is the Snälltåget at 1,290 km; the fastest is the EuroNight, running up to 200 km/h; the oldest line dates to 1865. Every route links to its facts, photo and story, and to the interactive world map.
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Classic (13)
- Lyntog Copenhagen–Aarhus
Zealand to Jutland with no ferry: an 8 km tunnel and the 6.6 km West Bridge across the Great Belt made Denmark one rail country in 1997.
Wikipedia (DA) ↗ - Öresundståg
Rolls off Sweden’s West Coast Line and over the 8 km Øresund Bridge, plunging into the Drogden tunnel to reach Copenhagen.
Wikipedia ↗ - DSB InterCity
DSB’s long haul up Jutland, crossing the Great Belt Fixed Link, to Aalborg, gateway to Denmark’s north.
- DSB InterCity
Runs west to Esbjerg, Denmark’s North Sea port and the historic embarkation point for steamers and emigrants to Britain.
- Skagen Line (Skagensbanen)
Runs to Denmark’s northernmost station through dune plantations to the sand-blown artists’ town where two seas meet at Grenen.
Wikipedia ↗ - Langå–Struer railway
Central Jutland end to end: single track opened section by section from 1863, Langå to Viborg to Skive to the fjord port at Struer.
Wikipedia ↗ - Lollandsbanen
Opened in 1874 and still crossing Lolland from Nykøbing Falster through Maribo to the shipyard town of Nakskov.
Wikipedia ↗ - Kystbanen
The Sound coast line of 1897, one of Denmark's busiest: Copenhagen out past the Øresund beaches to Elsinore and Kronborg.
Wikipedia ↗ - Frederiksværk Line
North Zealand branch line: Hillerød to Frederiksværk from 1897, on to the Kattegat ferry harbour at Hundested from 1916.
Wikipedia ↗ - Vejle–Holstebro railway
Single track right across Jutland, built in pieces between 1894 and 1914 from the Vejle fjord to Herning and the west.
Wikipedia ↗ - Tølløse Line
A rural single track across western Zealand, joining the Northwest Line at Tølløse to the Copenhagen–Fredericia main line at Slagelse.
Wikipedia ↗ - Vestbanen
Nebelgrisen, the 'Nebel pig': 37 km of unelectrified West Jutland branch line from Varde out to the dune coast at Nørre Nebel.
Wikipedia ↗ - Thy Line
Denmark's north-west corner by rail: 73 km from the fjord port of Struer through Thy to Thisted, open since 1882.
Wikipedia ↗
Night train (2)
- EuroNight
Scandinavia’s night-train revival: across the Öresund while you sleep, into Germany by breakfast.
Wikipedia ↗ - Snälltåget
A private summer sleeper down through Sweden, over the Öresund bridge past Copenhagen and across Denmark to Berlin, outlasting the state night trains.
Wikipedia ↗
Heritage (1)
- Mariager–Handest Veteranjernbane
Denmark’s leading veteran railway: 1909 Henschel steam from the fjord port of Mariager over rolling moraine hills to Handest, run in 1950s private-railway style.
Wikipedia (DA) ↗
Photos via Wikimedia Commons — each route page credits the author & licence
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