Rødovre station is a
commuter rail
Commuter rail, or suburban rail, is a passenger rail transport service that primarily operates within a metropolitan area, connecting commuters to a central city from adjacent suburbs or commuter towns. Generally commuter rail systems are con ...
railway station serving the suburbs of
Rødovre
Rødovre is a town in eastern Denmark, seat of the Rødovre Municipality, in the Region Hovedstaden. The town's population 1 January 2019 was 39,907, and in addition 145 persons had no fixed address, which made up a total of 40,052 in the municip ...
and
Hvidovre
Hvidovre is the main town in Hvidovre Municipality, Denmark. The town, a suburb of Copenhagen, is about 10 km southwest of the capital's center. It is the 2nd biggest suburb of Copenhagen, only beaten by Frederiksberg.
History
Hvidovre has ...
west of
Copenhagen
Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a proper population of around 815.000 in the last quarter of 2022; and some 1.370,000 in the urban area; and the wider Copenhagen metropolitan ar ...
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Denmark
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. The station is located on the boundary between Rødovre and Hvidovre municipalities and serves parts of either. It is located on the
Taastrup radial of Copenhagen's
S-train
The S-Bahn is the name of hybrid urban- suburban rail systems serving a metropolitan region in German-speaking countries. Some of the larger S-Bahn systems provide service similar to rapid transit systems, while smaller ones often resemble co ...
network.
Unusual tracks
The station has a peculiar layout in that the outgoing (northern) track is elevated about 5 meters above the other tracks; passenger access facilities are located in rooms directly beneath the track, providing (almost) level access to the platform for the ingoing track from the bus terminal north of the station. Allegedly the idea behind this arrangement was that most passengers were traveling to/from Copenhagen, so departing passengers get easy access to their platform whereas upon arrival one merely has to ''descend'' the stairs. A new elevator was built in 2004.
The station was opened on 24 April 1964, ten years after the line was opened for S-trains.
File:RødovreStation-1.JPG, Northerly westbound platform
File:RødovreStation-3.JPG, The southern platform for services heading East, next to two long distance train tracks which bypass the station
See also
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List of railway stations in Denmark
This article shows a list of railway stations and railway halts in Denmark.
List
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* Rungsted Kyst station
* Ry station
* Ryde station
* Ryomgård station
* Ryparken station
* Rødby Færge station
* Rødekro station
* Rødkærsbro station
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References
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S-train (Copenhagen) stations
Railway stations opened in 1964
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