Ulfborg railway station is a railway station serving the small railway town of

Ulfborg Ulfborg-Vemb was a municipality (Danish language, Danish, ''Commune (subnational entity), kommune'') in the former Ringkjøbing County on the west coast of the Jutland peninsula in west Denmark. By January 1, 2007, Ulfborg-Vemb municipality ceased ...

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. Ulfborg station is located on the Esbjerg–Struer railway line from

Esbjerg Esbjerg (, ) is a seaport town and seat of Esbjerg Municipality on the west coast of the Jutland peninsula in southwest Denmark. By road, it is west of Kolding and southwest of Aarhus. With an urban population of 71,698 (1 January 2022)

to Struer. The station opened in 1875. It offers

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services to Holstebro and Skjern, operated by the railway company

Midtjyske Jernbaner Midtjyske Jernbaner A/S (abbreviated MJBA) is a Danish railway company operating in Region Midtjylland, Denmark. The company was founded in 2008 as a merger of the operating companies Vemb-Lemvig-Thyborøn Jernbane A/S and Hads-Ning Herreders J ...

History

The station opened on 31 March 1875 as the section from Holstebro to

Ringkøbing Ringkøbing (older spelling ''Ringkjøbing'') is a town in Ringkøbing-Skjern Municipality in Region Midtjylland on the west coast of the Jutland peninsula in west Denmark. It has a population of 9,894 (1 January 2022).

of the new Esbjerg–Struer railway line opened. Later the same year, on 8 August, the section from Varde to Ringkøbing also opened, and the

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was thus completed. It has been unstaffed since 1970.

Architecture

The

station building A station building, also known as a head house, is the main building of a passenger railway station. It is typically used principally to provide services to passengers. A station building is a component of a station, which can include tracks, p ...

from 1875 was designed by the

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Niels Peder Christian Holsøe (1826–1895), known for the numerous

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s he designed across Denmark in his capacity of head architect of the

Danish State Railways DSB, an abbreviation of ''Danske Statsbaner'' (, ''Danish State Railways''), is the largest Danish train operating company, and the largest in Scandinavia. While DSB is responsible for passenger train operation on most of the Danish railways, goo ...

Services

The station offers direct

services to and , operated by the regional railway company

References

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External links

Banedanmark
– government agency responsible for maintenance and traffic control of most of the Danish railway network
Midtjyske Jernbaner
– Danish regional railway company operating in

Central Denmark Region The Central Denmark Region ( da, Region Midtjylland), or more directly translated as the Central Jutland Region and sometimes simply Mid Jutland, is an administrative region of Denmark established on 1 January 2007 as part of the 2007 Danish muni ...

Danske Jernbaner
– website with information on railway history in Denmark Buildings and structures in Holstebro Municipality Railway stations in the Central Denmark Region Railway stations in Denmark opened in 1875 {{Denmark-railstation-stub