Skørping railway station

Skørping
Front facade of Skørping station
General information
LocationSverriggårdsvej 4
9520 Skørping[1][2]
Rebild Municipality
Denmark
Coordinates56°50′09″N 9°53′14″E / 56.83583°N 9.88722°E / 56.83583; 9.88722
Elevation55.5 metres (182 ft)[3]
Owned byDSB (station infrastructure)[4]
Banedanmark (rail infrastructure)[4]
LineRanders–Aalborg
Platforms2
Tracks3
Train operatorsDSB[1]
Nordjyske Jernbaner[5]
History
Opened18 September 1869; 156 years ago (1869-09-18)[6]
Services
Preceding station Danish State Railways DSB Following station
Hobro
towards Copenhagen Central
 Copenhagen-Aalborg
InterCity
 Aalborg
towards Aalborg Airport
Preceding station Nordjyske Jernbaner Following station
Arden
towards Hobro
 Hobro – Skagen
Regional train
 Støvring
towards Skagen
Terminus Skørping – Hirtshals
Regional train
Peak hours
 Støvring
towards Hirtshals
Location
Skørping station is located in Denmark
Skørping station
Skørping station
Location within Denmark
Map

Skørping station is a railway station serving the railway town of Skørping in the Himmerland peninsula south of Aalborg, Denmark.[1][2] The station is located in the centre of the town on the northern edge of the Rold Forest.

Opened in 1869, the station is located on the Randers–Aalborg railway line between Randers and Aalborg.[7] The train services are currently operated by the railway companies DSB and Nordjyske Jernbaner.[1][5]

History

Platforms of Skørping station

The station opened as one of the original intermediate stations of the Randers–Aalborg railway line from Randers to Aalborg which opened on 18 September 1869; 156 years ago (1869-09-18).[6]

Skørping station survived a series of station closures in the 1970s. In 2003 ,it became the southern terminus of the new Aalborg Commuter Rail service.[8] In 2017, operation of the commuter rail services between Aalborg and Skørping were transferred from DSB to the regional railway company Nordjyske Jernbaner.[9]

Operations

Skørping station offers direct InterCity services to Copenhagen and Aalborg operated by the national train operating company DSB, and regional train services to Hobro and Aalborg operated by the regional railway company Nordjyske Jernbaner.[1][5]

Architecture

The water tower of Skørping station.

The original station building from 1869 was designed by the Danish railway architect N.P.C. Holsøe (1826–1895), known for the numerous railway stations he designed across Denmark in his capacity of head architect of the Danish State Railways.[10] It was rebuilt in 1878 and 1898.

The station building was listed in the Danish registry of protected buildings and places in 1992 along with the station's water tower.[11]

In literature

Danish writer Herman Bang's novel Ved Vejen was inspired by an incident in 1883 when he was passing through Skørping Station. He noticed a young woman at the window who, her pale face couched in her hands, stared after his departing train. In the introduction to Stille Eksistenser he explains: "For the rest of the journey, I could see the woman's face between the flowers. Her look was not quite one of longing — longing would have perhaps fluttered to death by breaking its wings in such tight confines — just a quite resignation, a waning sorrow. And when the train had slid by, she would be peering out with the same look over Egnens Lyng — over the dreary plain."

Bang started writing the novel in 1885 in Vienna, after remembering Skørping Station: "It was in one of those windows behind the flowers that I saw her face, a face which I had not been able to erase from my memory for two years and which, as if a painter, I felt like drawing in soft, melancholic, almost blurry lines and using it as a kind of cover illustration for this book."[12]

See also

References

Citations

  1. ^ a b c d e "Skørping Station" (in Danish). DSB. Retrieved 17 October 2020.
  2. ^ a b "Standsningssteder på Skagensbanen" (in Danish). Nordjyske Jernbaner. Retrieved 4 May 2021.
  3. ^ "Skørping Station (Sø)". danskejernbaner.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 3 December 2024.
  4. ^ a b "Analyse af de danske jernbanestationer" (PDF) (in Danish). Ministry of Transport. April 2017. Retrieved 18 March 2025.
  5. ^ a b c "Om Nordjyske Jernbaner" (in Danish). Nordjyske Jernbaner. Retrieved 22 July 2019.
  6. ^ a b Jensen 1976, p. 6.
  7. ^ Jensen (1976), p. 11.
  8. ^ "Aalborg Nærbane" (in Danish). Nordjyllands Jernbaner. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
  9. ^ "Historien bag Nordjyske Jernbaner" (in Danish). Nordjyske Jernbaner. Retrieved 23 July 2019.
  10. ^ "Stationer Randers – Aalborg". Nordjyllands Jernbaner (in Danish). Retrieved 29 April 2020.
  11. ^ "Skørping Station" (in Danish). Slots- og Kulturstyrelsen. Retrieved 2020-11-01.
  12. ^ Johannes Fibiger, "Hvordan Bang blev forfatter", Forfatterweb. (in Danish) Retrieved 11 February 2013.

Bibliography

  • Jensen, Niels (1972). Danske Jernbaner 1847–1972 [Danish railways 1847–1972] (in Danish). Copenhagen: J. Fr. Clausens Forlag. ISBN 87-11-01765-1.
  • Jensen, Niels (1976). Nordjyske jernbaner (in Danish). Copenhagen: J. Fr. Clausens Forlag. ISBN 87-11-03756-3.
allikas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sk%C3%B8rping_railway_station