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Taastrup railway station

Coordinates: 55°39′09″N 12°18′07″E / 55.65250°N 12.30194°E

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Taastrup

S-train station

Taastrup station in 2014

General information

Location

Selsmosevej 5
2630 Taastrup^[1]
Høje-Taastrup Municipality
Denmark

Coordinates

55°39′09″N 12°18′07″E / 55.65250°N 12.30194°E

Elevation

20.1 metres (66 ft)^[2]

Owned by

DSB

Platforms

Island platform

Tracks

Construction

Architect

Heinrich Wenck (1918)^[3]

History

Opened

26 June 1847

Rebuilt

26 May 1963 (S-train)

Electrified

1963 (S-train)

Services

Preceding station	S-train			Following station
Høje Taastrup Terminus		Bx Peak hours		Albertslund towards Buddinge
Høje Taastrup Terminus		B		Albertslund towards Farum

Taastrup station (Danish pronunciation: [ˈtsʰʌˌstʁɔp stæˈɕoˀn]) is a Copenhagen S-train railway station serving the railway town/suburb of Taastrup west of Copenhagen, Denmark.^[1] It is located on the Taastrup radial of Copenhagen's S-train network.

History

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Taastrup station was one of the original intermediate stops on the new railway line from Copenhagen to Roskilde, the first railway line in the Kingdom of Denmark^[a].^[5] It was inaugurated on 26 June 1847, and the following day the railway opened to regular traffic with three trains daily in each direction.^[6] At the opening, the station was named Kiøgevejen, as it is located where the railway line crosses the old highway to Køge.^[7]

The station was later converted into an S-train station.

Architecture

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Taastrup station's stately station building was built in 1918 to designs by the Danish architect Heinrich Wenck (1851–1936), known for the numerous railway stations he designed across Denmark in his capacity of head architect of the Danish State Railways.^[3] The old station building was demolished in 1979.^[8]

Service

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Taastrup Station is served by B trains.

In popular culture

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The old Taastrup station is used as a location in the 1951 film Lyntoget.^[8]

Notes

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^ 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.^[4]

References

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Citations

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^ ^a ^b "Taastrup Station" (in Danish). DSB. Retrieved 6 July 2024.
^ "Taastrup S-togstrinbræt (Tå)". danskejernbaner.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 3 December 2024.
^ ^a ^b Vigand Rasmussen. "Heinrich Wenck". Kunstindeks Danmark & Weilbach Kunstnerleksikon. Retrieved February 25, 2023.
^ Jensen 1972, p. 11.
^ Jensen 1972, p. 12-15.
^ Jensen 1972, p. 13.
^ Jensen 1972, p. 15.
^ ^a ^b "Yaastrup Station". danskefilm.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 16 March 2017.

Bibliography

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Jensen, Niels (1972). Danske Jernbaner 1847–1972 [Danish railways 1847–1972] (in Danish). Copenhagen: J. Fr. Clausens Forlag. ISBN 87-11-01765-1.
Poulsen, John; Christensen, Jens Ole; Thomassen, Peer; Zeeberg, Nils Kristian (1984). Københavns S-bane 1934-1984 (in Danish). Roskilde: Bane Bøger. ISBN 87-88632-01-6.
Poulsen, John; Larsen, Morten Flindt (2009). S-banen 1934-2009 (in Danish). Roskilde: Bane Bøger. ISBN 978-87-91434-20-4.

External links

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Taastrup Station.

Official website
(in Danish) Banedanmark – government agency responsible for maintenance and traffic control of most of the Danish railway network
(in Danish) DSB – the Danish national train operating company
(in Danish) Danske Jernbaner – website with information on railway history in Denmark

v t e Western suburbs of Copenhagen
Administrative subdivisions	Albertslund Municipality Brøndby Municipality Glostrup Municipality Greve Municipality Høje-Taastrup Municipality Hvidovre Municipality Ishøj Municipality Rødovre Municipality Vallensbæk Municipality
Suburban neighbourhoods	Albertslund Brøndby Strand Brøndbyøster Brøndbyvester Glostrup Hedehusene Hvidovre Ishøj Rødovre Vallensbæk Taastrup
Parks and open spaces	Hedeland Køge Bugt Strandpark Vestskoven
Museums and cultural institutions	Arken Museum of Modern Art Henry Heerup Museum Kroppedal Taastrup Teater
Other landmarks	Avedøre Airfield Brøndby Stadium Glostrup Hospital Reerslev Church Rødovre Town Hall Taastrup Water Tower
Railway stations	Hvidovre Rødovre Brøndbyøster Glostrup Albertslund Taastrup Høje Taastrup

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