Copenhagen Central Station
Københavns Hovedbanegård, abbreviated København H, is the Copenhagen Central Station and most important railway station in the route network of the Danish State Railways. It was planned by the architect Heinrich Wenck and was put into operation on 1 December 1911.
Predecessor stations
Today Copenhagen Central Station had two previous stations, which were located approximately at the same location as the present station. The first building was built in 1847, the platform tracks ran transversely to the present situation. The second station was opened to replace the outgrown first station in 1864.
Copenhagen Central Station 1863
Wenck's drawing of the main facade of 1905
Wenck's plan of the railway tracks of 1904
After Heinrich Wenck had worked from 1898 to 1902, various proposals, the current station was initially created as was his predecessor as a pure head station, inaugurated on 30 November 1911 by King Christian X and the following day put into operation. The plant had six platforms for passengers and five each intervening Luggage platforms. Along the outside of the platform on track 1 ( next to the Tivoli) were operating rooms as well as the royal waiting rooms, and on the outside of the track 12 was a slightly elevated platform luggage.
Location
The current station is located in the southwest of the downtown area in the former ramparts at the transition to the hip Vesterbro district. On the eastern side is followed immediately by the inner city Tivoli Gardens. Opposite the main entrance, at the Vesterbrogade, is the built in 1797 freedom column which commemorates the abolition of serfdom in Denmark, and built by Arne Jacobsen SAS Royal Hotel. West of the main railway station starts the Istedgade that developed after the opening of the station to a entertainment and red light district.
Track and platform systems
The reception building of the present through station is located north as early as the beginning across the tracks, which will continue at today's state at the elevated station forecourt and through a tunnel and into the north and Helsingør. This results in the cityscape continues the impression of a head station. The tunnel route is claimed in addition to the trains to North Zealand also from the S -tog system. However, the main trunk routes ( Oresund connection, Vestbanen to Fredericia, Vogelfluglinie ) reach the central station from the south. The station has 13 platform tracks, of which the tracks are from 1 to 8 and 26 used for regional and long-distance transport, the tracks 9 to 12 of the S-Bahn Copenhagen.
Compounds
S -tog
Almost all S -tog - lines of the Capital Region go to the central station, the only exception is the line F.
Regional connections
From Copenhagen Central Station you can reach the regional connections to
- Helsingør
- Ringsted
- Roskilde and Kalundborg
- Næstved and on to the islands of Falster and Lolland
- Copenhagen Airport and Malmö with the Øresundstog ( international transport to Sweden )
National long distance calls
From Copenhagen from the Intercity trains run over the Great Belt Fixed Link to Funen and Jutland. In addition, some intercity trains to Ystad with connections to the ferry to Bornholm.
International connections
From Copenhagen you can reach