Copenhagen Airport railway station () is a

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Tårnby Tårnby () is a town in Denmark, the seat of Tårnby Municipality in the Capital Region of Denmark. It is located approximately south of central Copenhagen on the island of Amager. Neighbouring settlements include the Copenhagen suburb of S ...

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, serving

Copenhagen Airport Copenhagen Airport, Kastrup (, ) is an international airport serving Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, as well as the wider Øresund Region, including Zealand and the southern Sweden, Swedish province of Scania. In 2023 it was the largest ai ...

. It is located below ground directly under the check-in and arrival area in the airport's Terminal 3. The station is served by DSB’s regional trains including the Øresundtrain network. The nearby Lufthavnen metro station is served by the Copenhagen Metro’s line M2. The stations take their names from

, to which they are connected. It is located in fare zone 4.

History

The station opened on 27 September 1998, and was subsequently reconstructed and reopened on 28 September 2007, with a connection to the Copenhagen Metro opening the following month. Temporarily from 4 January 2016 to 4 May 2017, Sweden required train and bus transport companies entering Sweden to perform full identity check of every passenger, because of the

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. For that reason the Southern platform was used only for departures to Sweden, with border checks at openings in fence erected along the platform. All arrivals and all departures to Denmark used the Northern platform. Only the regional trains towards Helsingør and Sweden used Copenhagen Airport station, all other trains did not go here during this period.

Future developments

There is a decision to build platforms at the two tracks placed north of the existing station. These tracks are so far used for freight trains. This will be finished in 2026.

Metro station

Lufthavnen (‘Airport’) metro station is located slightly further off than the railway station, at the far end of Terminal 3 on the level 2. The metro connects to

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and

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. The station is linked to

Ørestad station Ørestad () is a developing city area in Copenhagen, Denmark, on the island of Amager. The area was developed using the new town concept, closely linked with the M1 line of the Copenhagen Metro. Economically, income for the plan would be generat ...

on the M1 line by DSB regional trains.

Services

The station is served by the following types of trains: *

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s between

Copenhagen Central Station Copenhagen Central Station (, ; abbreviated ''København H'', colloquially usually referred to as ''Hovedbanegården'' or simply ''Hovedbanen'') is the Central station, main railway station in Copenhagen, Denmark, and the largest railway station ...

and

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. These trains also stop at

and

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en route to Copenhagen, and at

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and Triangeln en route to Malmö. To Copenhagen every 10 minutes, and to Malmö every 20 minutes. *

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s on Zealand and southern Sweden. Connects to

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and

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. * Intercity trains to the rest of Denmark including

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. * Intercity trains in southern Sweden connects to

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and

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(see

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). * High-speed

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trains to

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References

External links

*
Copenhagen Airport Station
on www.dsb.dk *

on www.m.dk *
Official website
of

*
Banedanmark
– government agency responsible for

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and traffic control of most of the Danish railway network *
DSB
– largest Danish

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