Ryomgård station is a

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serving the

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Ryomgård Ryomgård is a Danish country town with a population of 2,743 (1 January 2025) located 29 kilometers north east of to the country’s second largest city Aarhus. As such Ryomgård is in part a pendler town to Aarhus. Ryomgård lies in the middl ...

on the peninsula of

Djursland Djursland () is a 1,417 km2 hilly lowland peninsula in Denmark at the entrance to the Baltic Sea, between Denmark and Sweden in Northern Europe. Djursland protrudes into the Kattegat sea, as part of the larger peninsula of Jutland, which its ...

Jutland Jutland (; , ''Jyske Halvø'' or ''Cimbriske Halvø''; , ''Kimbrische Halbinsel'' or ''Jütische Halbinsel'') is a peninsula of Northern Europe that forms the continental portion of Denmark and part of northern Germany (Schleswig-Holstein). It ...

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. The station is located on the

Grenaa railway line The Grenaa Line () is a long standard gauge single track railway line in Denmark which runs between Aarhus and Grenaa through the peninsula of Djursland. The railway opened in 1876–1877. It is owned and maintained by Rail Net Denmark and serv ...

between

Aarhus Aarhus (, , ; officially spelled Århus from 1948 until 1 January 2011) is the second-largest city in Denmark and the seat of Aarhus municipality, Aarhus Municipality. It is located on the eastern shore of Jutland in the Kattegat sea and app ...

and

Grenaa Grenaa (or Grenå) is a Danish town and seaport on the east coast of the Jutland peninsula. Tourism, education and commerce are important sectors in the economy of Grenaa. It is the only larger town on Djursland. Grenaa is the municipal seat, a ...

. It opened in 1876 with the opening of the Randers-Ryomgaard-Grenaa Line. Since 2019, the station has been served by the

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system, a

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network combining

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lines in the city of Aarhus with operation on

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s in the surrounding countryside.

History

The station opened on 26 August 1876 as the

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Østjyske Jernbane (ØJJ) opened the

Randers-Ryomgaard-Grenaa from

Randers Randers () is a city in Randers Municipality, Central Denmark Region on the Jutland peninsula. It is List of cities and towns in Denmark, Denmark's sixth-largest city, with a population of 64,511 ().Grenaa Grenaa (or Grenå) is a Danish town and seaport on the east coast of the Jutland peninsula. Tourism, education and commerce are important sectors in the economy of Grenaa. It is the only larger town on Djursland. Grenaa is the municipal seat, a ...

. In 1877, ØJJ opened a

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from

, and just a few years later the trains starting running directly between Grenaa and Aarhus, with the Ryomgård-Randers section being reduced to a branch line used mostly for

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until it was closed altogether on 2 May 1971. Ryomgard Gjerrildbanen 1911

In 1911, another railway line from Ryomgård to the north of Djursland was added, making Ryomgård a

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on Djursland, when Ryomgård station became the southern

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of the Ryomgård-Gjerrild Line from Ryomgård to the town of Gjerrild, which in 1917 was prolonged from Gjerrild to

. The Ryomgård-Gjerrild-Grenaa Line was closed in 1956. Aarhus-letbane-regionalstadtbahnlinie-l1-stadler-1216785

From 2016 to 2019, the station was temporarily closed along with the

while it was being reconstructed and

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to form part of the

system, a

network combining

lines in the city of Aarhus with operation on railway lines in the surrounding countryside. Since 2019, the station has been served by Line L1 of the Aarhus light rail network, operated by the multinational transportation company

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Architecture

The

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from 1876 was designed by the Danish

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Niels Peder Christian Holsøe Niels Peder Christian Holsøe (27 November 1826 – 1 January 1895) was a Denmark, Danish architect, known for the numerous railway stations he designed across Denmark in his capacity of head architect of the DSB (railway company), Danish Sta ...

(1826–1895), known for the numerous

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

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