B is a service on the
S-train
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network in
Copenhagen
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. It runs between
Farum
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Høje Taastrup and provides stopping services on the S-train system's
Farum radia and
Tåstrup radial.
B is one of the base services on the network, running every 20 minutes from about 5:00 to 1:00 every day, and every 10 minutes between about 6:00 to 19:00 on weekdays. On Friday and Saturday nights there is also a 30 minutes service throughout the night.
History
Since the first part of the
Taastrup radial opened in 1953, letter B has been used for its principal service. Before that the characteristic of service B was that it was the stopping trains to
Holte
Holte is a suburban district in Rudersdal Municipality on the northern outskirts of Copenhagen, Denmark. The local town centre is centred on Holte station and is surrounded by extensive areas of single-family, detached homes as well as several ...
.
Bb, L, B+
From 1972 to 1979, the service on the Taastrup branch was supplemented on weekdays by service
E (q.v.). In 1979 a separate daytime reinforcement service Bb was created; it ran every 20 minutes with a 10-minute offset to service B such that the Tåstrup radial effectively had a 10-minute frequency. Under the timetable doctrine followed in those years, a service letter such as B could not be used for more than exactly 3 trains an hour, so a separate service designation was needed for these daytime supplements. They later changed their name to L and then to B+, and were finally folded into B with the 2007 timetable.
Bx
Rush-hour supplements for B ran from 1955:
References
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S-train (Copenhagen)