Hedehusene railway station
{{Short description|Railway station in Greater Copenhagen, Denmark}}
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| address = Hovedgaden 437
2640 Hedehusene
| borough = Høje-Taastrup Municipality
| country = Denmark
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| elevation = {{convert|33.0|m|abbr=on}}
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| architect = Heinrich Wenck (1917)
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Hedehusene railway station is a railway station serving the railway town of Hedehusene, a suburban town of Copenhagen in Zealand, Denmark. It is located in the centre of the town, immediately adjacent to Hedehusene's bus station.
The station is located on the Copenhagen–Fredericia railway line between Copenhagen and Roskilde. It opened in 1847 with the opening of the Copenhagen-Roskilde railway line, the first railway line in the Kingdom of Denmark. It offers direct regional train services to Copenhagen and Roskilde. The train services are operated by the national railway company DSB.
History
{{stack|File:Dsb-regionalzug-bahnhof-hedehusene-am-828619.jpg regional train to Copenhagen calling at Hedehusene in 1981]]}}
Hedehusene station opened on 27 June 1847 as one of the original intermediate stops on the new railway line from Copenhagen to Roskilde, the first railway line in the Kingdom of Denmark{{efn|The first railway line in the then Danish Monarchy was the Kiel-Altona railway line in the Duchy of Holstein which had been completed three years earlier. However, the Duchy of Holstein was later lost to the Kingdom of Prussia after the Second Schleswig War in 1864, and that railway line is today part of the German rail network.{{sfn|Jensen|1972|p=11}}}}.{{sfn|Jensen|1972|p=12-15}} The railway line was completed for Det Sjællandske Jernbaneselskab ({{langx|en|the Zealand Railway Company}}) by British engineering company William Radford. The station originally opened as a railway halt where the railway line crossed the highway between Copenhagen and Roskilde. It was promoted to a railway station in 1880.
Architecture
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The station's second and current station building was built in 1917 to designs by Danish architect Heinrich Wenck (1851–1936), known for the numerous railway stations he designed across Denmark in his capacity of head architect of the Danish State Railways from 1894 to 1921.
Operations
{{stack|File:DSB_IC4_38_at_Hedehusene_Station.jpg IC4-train calling at Hedehusene in 2017]]}}
The train services are operated by the national railway company DSB. The station offers regional train services to Copenhagen, Elsinore, and Roskilde.
See also
{{portal|Trains|Architecture|Denmark}}
Note
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References
=Citations=
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= Bibliography =
- {{ cite book | last=Jensen | first=Niels | title=Danske Jernbaner 1847–1892 | year=1972 | publisher=J.Fr. Clausens Forlag | location=Copenhagen | isbn=87-11-01765-1 |lang=da }}
- {{ cite book | last=Jensen | first=Niels | title=Nordsjællandske jernbaner | year=1975 | publisher=J.Fr. Clausens Forlag | location=Copenhagen | isbn=87-11-03879-9 | language=da |ref=none}}
- {{ cite book | last=Jensen | first=Niels | title=Vestsjællandske jernbaner | year=1978 | publisher=J.Fr. Clausens Forlag | location=Copenhagen | isbn=87-11-03671-0 | language=da |ref=none}}
External links
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- {{in lang|da}} [http://www.banedanmark.dk Banedanmark] – government agency responsible for maintenance and traffic control of most of the Danish railway network
- {{in lang|da}} [http://www.dsb.dk DSB] – largest Danish train operating company
- {{in lang|da}} [http://danskejernbaner.dk/ Danske Jernbaner] – website with information on railway history in Denmark
{{Høje-Taastrup Municipality}}
{{Heinrich Wenck}}
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Category:Buildings and structures in Høje-Taastrup Municipality
Category:Railway stations in the Capital Region of Denmark
Category:1917 establishments in Denmark
Category:Railway stations in Denmark opened in 1847
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