The Fredericia–Padborg railway line () is a long
railway line
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in
Denmark
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which runs through the
historical region
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of
Southern Jutland
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between the city of
Fredericia
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Padborg
Padborg () is a southern Danish border town with a population of 4,318 (1 January 2025)Danish railway network, the
standard gauge
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and fully
electrified
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railway line is
double track
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Overview
In the earliest days of railways in the United Kingdom, most li ...
except for the section between and which is
single track
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Jutland Peninsula
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from the port city of
Frederikshavn
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The ...
Padborg
Padborg () is a southern Danish border town with a population of 4,318 (1 January 2025)Flensburg–Padborg railway line and the German railway network.
Copenhagen
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and the
Fredericia–Aarhus railway line
The Fredericia–Aarhus railway line () is a long standard-gauge double-track railway line in Denmark which runs between the cities of Fredericia and Aarhus in East Jutland. It constitutes a section of the East Jutland longitudinal railway line ...
to
Aarhus
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Lunderskov–Esbjerg railway line
The Lunderskov-Esbjerg line is the railway between Lunderskov and Esbjerg in Southern Jutland. It was opened on 3 October 1874, along with the first part of the Esbjerg–Struer railway line to Varde.
History
The construction of the line was aut ...
to
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border station
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border station
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Neumünster–Flensburg railway
The Neumünster Flensburg Railway is part of the Jutland line, the main north–south rail link through Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Together with the Husum–Kiel railway, line to Husum, which diverges in Jübek, and the Husum–Kiel railway, li ...
See also
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List of railway lines in Denmark
Denmark has more than of railway lines, of which most are under the control of Banedanmark; a number of private railways run their own lines.
Banedanmark lines
* Copenhagen–Fredericia/Taulov
* Copenhagen–Ringsted
* Ringsted–Rødby Fà ...
*
Rail transport in Denmark
The rail transport system in Denmark consists of of railway lines, of which the Copenhagen S-train network, the main line Helsingør-Copenhagen-Padborg (at the Denmark–Germany border, German border), and the Lunderskov-Esbjerg line are railwa ...
*
History of rail transport in Denmark
The history of rail transport in Denmark began in 1847 with the opening of a railway line between Copenhagen and Roskilde. The Kiel- Altona line in Holstein was completed three years earlier, but the region was later lost to the German Confederat ...
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Denmark–Germany border
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responsible for
maintenance
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and
traffic control
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train operating company
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railway history
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Ancient systems
The Post Track, a prehisto ...