Grenaa station ( da, Grenaa Banegård) is a railway station serving the town and seaport of

Grenaa Grenaa (or Grenå) is a Danish town and seaport on the east coast of the Jutlandic peninsula. Tourism, education and commerce are important sectors in the economy of Grenaa. It is the only larger town on Djursland. Grenaa is the municipal seat, an ...

on the

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peninsula in

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. The station is the northeastern

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of the

Grenaa railway line The Grenaa Line ( da, Grenaabanen) is a long standard gauge single track railway line in Denmark which runs between Aarhus and Grenaa through the peninsula of Djursland. The railway opened in 1876–1877. It is owned and maintained by Rail Net ...

from

Aarhus Aarhus (, , ; officially spelled Århus from 1948 until 1 January 2011) is the second-largest city in Denmark and the seat of Aarhus Municipality. It is located on the eastern shore of Jutland in the Kattegat sea and approximately northwest ...

to Grenaa. The station opened in 1876 with the opening of the Randers-Ryomgaard-Grenaa Line. Since 2019, the station has been served by the

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system, a

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network combining

tram A tram (called a streetcar or trolley in North America) is a rail vehicle that travels on tramway tracks on public urban streets; some include segments on segregated right-of-way. The tramlines or networks operated as public transport are ...

lines in the city of Aarhus with operation on

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s in the surrounding countryside.

History

The station opened on 26 August 1876 as the

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Østjyske Jernbane (ØJJ) opened the

Randers-Ryomgaard-Grenaa from

Randers Randers () is a city in Randers Municipality, Central Denmark Region on the Jutland peninsula. It is Denmark's sixth-largest city, with a population of 62,802 (as of 1 January 2022).branch line A branch line is a phrase used in railway terminology to denote a secondary railway line which branches off a more important through route, usually a main line. A very short branch line may be called a spur line. Industrial spur An industri ...

from

Ryomgård Ryomgård is a Danish country town with a population of 2,498 (1 January 2022) located 29 kilometers north east of to the country’s second largest city Aarhus. As such Ryomgård is in part a pendler town to Aarhus. Ryomgård lies in the middl ...

, and just a few years later the trains starting running directly between Grenaa and Aarhus, with the Ryomgård-Randers section being reduced to a branch line used mostly for rail freight transport. From 1881, the train services were operated by the national railway company

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which from 2012 ran frequent

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services between Grenaa, Aarhus and

Odder Odder is a town in Jutland, Denmark. The town is the seat of Odder municipality, and is the biggest town in the municipality. It is located 20 km south of Aarhus and 16 km south-east of Skanderborg. Odder is part of Business Region Aarhus, and t ...

as part of the

Aarhus Commuter Rail Aarhus Commuter Rail ( da, Aarhus Nærbane) was a commuter rail service in and near Aarhus, Denmark. There was one line, from Odder to Grenaa, with 33 stations. This traffic concept started in 2012, when the traffic on the two local railways Odd ...

service. From 2016 to 2019, the station was temporarily closed along with the

while it was being reconstructed and

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to form part of the

system, a

network combining

lines in the city of Aarhus with operation on railway lines in the surrounding countryside. Since 2019, the station has been served by Line L1 of the Aarhus light rail network, operated by the multinational transportation company

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Architecture

The

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from 1876 was designed by the

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Niels Peder Christian Holsøe Niels Peder Christian Holsøe (27 November 1826 – 1 January 1895) was a Danish architect, known for the numerous railway stations he designed across Denmark in his capacity of head architect of the Danish State Railways. Biography Holsøe ...

(1826–1895), known for the numerous

railway station Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport that transfers passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, which are incorporated in tracks. In contrast to road transport, where the vehicles run on a pre ...

s he designed across Denmark in his capacity of head architect of the Danish State Railways.

References

External links

Aarhus Letbane

Midttrafik
Grenaa Railway stations opened in 1876 Railway stations in the Central Denmark Region 1876 establishments in Denmark Niels Peder Christian Holsøe railway stations {{Denmark-railstation-stub

History

Architecture

See also

References

External links