Avedøre station is a

suburban rail Commuter rail or suburban rail is a Passenger train, passenger rail service that primarily operates within a metropolitan area, connecting Commuting, commuters to a Central business district, central city from adjacent suburbs or commuter town ...

railway station serving the suburb of

Avedøre Avedøre is a south-western suburb of Copenhagen located in Hvidovre Municipality. Description The city is mostly made up of concrete blocks and row-housing, but some people residing in Avedøre live in detached single-family houses with gardens ...

southwest of

Copenhagen Copenhagen ( ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a population of 1.4 million in the Urban area of Copenhagen, urban area. The city is situated on the islands of Zealand and Amager, separated from Malmö, Sweden, by the ...

Denmark Denmark is a Nordic countries, Nordic country in Northern Europe. It is the metropole and most populous constituent of the Kingdom of Denmark,, . also known as the Danish Realm, a constitutionally unitary state that includes the Autonomous a ...

. Avedøre station is located on the Køge radial of Copenhagen's S-train network, a hybrid

and

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system serving

Greater Copenhagen The urban area of Copenhagen (also known as Greater Copenhagen) ( or ), lying mostly in the Capital Region of Denmark but also in Region Zealand, consist of Copenhagen and Frederiksberg municipalities and the former Copenhagen County. In all, it ...

. The station is served regularly by trains on the A-line which have a journey time to central Copenhagen of around 15 minutes.

History

The station opened on 1 October 1972 as the first section of the

Køge Bay Line Køge (, older spelling ''Kjøge'') is a Danish seaport on the coast of Køge Bugt (''Bay of Køge'') 39 km southwest of Copenhagen. It is the principal town and seat of Køge Municipality, Region Sjælland (Zealand), Denmark. In 2025, the u ...

from

to was completed. Avedoere Station Denmark perron nord

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and

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of most of the Danish railway network
DSB
– the Danish national

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Danske Jernbaner
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in Denmark Buildings and structures in Hvidovre Municipality S-train (Copenhagen) stations Railway stations in Denmark opened in 1972 {{Denmark-railstation-stub

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