Aarhus Central Station

Aarhus Central Station
Aarhus Hovedbanegård
Front facade of Aarhus Central Station by night
Location Banegårdspladsen, Aarhus
Denmark
Coordinates 56°09′00″N 10°12′17″E / 56.15000°N 10.20472°E / 56.15000; 10.20472Coordinates: 56°09′00″N 10°12′17″E / 56.15000°N 10.20472°E / 56.15000; 10.20472
Operated by DSB
Arriva
Midttrafik
Line(s) Fredericia-Århus Line
Aarhus-Aalborg Line
Odder Line
Grenaa Line
Platforms 4
Tracks 8
Other information
Fare zone 01
History
Opened 1862
Rebuilt July 1929
Location
Aarhus Central Station
Location within Denmark

Aarhus Central Station (Danish: Aarhus Hovedbanegård, abbreviated Aarhus H) is the main railway station serving the city of Aarhus, Denmark. Serving as the main connecting hub for rail traffic between Aarhus and the rest of Denmark, the station is used by an average of 6.3 million people per year, making it the busiest station in Denmark outside the Copenhagen area. It is located in the city centre between the districts of Midtbyen and Frederiksbjerg with entrances from Banegårdspladsen and the shopping centre Bruun's Galleri, and with access to platforms from M.P. Bruuns Gade.

It is a through station with 4 platforms. The station is located on the East Jutland railway, and is the terminus of the Grenaa Line and Odder Line. It offers international connections to Hamburg and Berlin, InterCity connections to Aalborg/Frederikshavn and Copenhagen, regional connections to the rest of Jutland as well as light rail services to Grenå and Odder. The train services are operated by DSB, Arriva and Deutsche Bahn.

History

The first railway station in Aarhus was built in 1862 near Ryesgade and served the Aarhus-Randers railway line. It was constructed by the civil engineering company Peto, Brassey and Betts, and encompassed administration buildings and railway works.

In 1884, a new and larger station building was constructed. The second station was built in Neo-Renaissance style by Thomas Arboe and William August Thulstrup and was possibly inspired by Bonn Central Station.[1][2]

However, also this building turned out to be to small for the quickly developing city. The third and current Aarhus Central Station was built in 1927 by the Danish State Railway's architect K.T. Seest as a part of a plan of the whole area around the station.

Station facilities

The station itself houses a large ticket kiosk, public toilets, a McDonald's restaurant, two 7-Eleven's, and a couple of other shops, but the station building is also combined with a three-storey shopping centre (Bruun's Galleri) housing 93 stores, restaurants and cafés and a large underground car park.[3] The upper deck of the groundfloor train station holds a shopping arcade (Bruuns Arkade) with more restaurants, and a two-storey bike parking facility.

The square outside the station (Banegårdsplads) has a taxi hub, a bike-share facility, a pharmacy, a money transfer and exchange store, and more shops, kiosks and eateries.

The railway terminal has a flow of 13 million people per year.

Operations

Aarhus Central Station serves the whole of Denmark with inter-city rail and Jutland with regional rail. The regional connections include Herning/Skjern in the west and Struer in the northwest.

Aarhus Light Rail with electric trams opened its first line from Aarhus Central Station in December 2017. It connects with Aarhus University Hospital (DNU) in Skejby. In 2018, a southward suburban rail line to Odder opened, and a northbound section to Grenaa is scheduled for 2019. More local expansions of the system are planned for the near future.

Services

The following services currently call at the station:

  • Intercity Express services Aarhus–Fredericia–Padborg–Flensburg–Hamburg–Berlin
  • Intercity services Frederikshavn–Hjoerring–Aalborg–Aarhus–Fredericia–Odense–Copenhagen–Copenhagen Airport
  • Regional services Aarhus–Horsens–Fredericia–Kolding–Esbjerg
  • Regional services Herning–Silkeborg–Aarhus
  • Local services Struer–Skive–Viborg–Aarhus
  • Local services Skjern–Herning–Silkeborg–Aarhus
  • Light rail/tramway Odder–Aarhus–Lisbjergskolen/Lystrup
  • Future Light rail/tramway line (2019) Odder–Aarhus–Skødstrup–Ryomgård–Grenaa
Preceding station   Danske Statsbaner   Following station
Skanderborg
Copenhagen–Frederikshavn
InterCityLyn
Copenhagen–Frederikshavn
InterCity
Copenhagen–Aarhus–Struer
InterCity
toward Struer
TerminusAarhus–Aalborg–Frederikshavn
Regional train
Preceding station   Arriva   Following station
toward Skjern
Aarhus–Skjern
Regional train		Terminus
TerminusAarhus–Struer
Regional train
toward Struer
Preceding station   Aarhus Letbane   Following station
toward Odder
Line 2
toward Lisbjergskolen/Lystrup

References

  1. ↑ Christiansen, Asger. 1884: Ny hovedbanegård i Aarhus", Jernbanehistorisk Årbog 2009.
  2. ↑ Østerby, Mads (1984). Danske jernbaners byggeri. Et rids af et forløb (1844-1984). Odense Universitetsforlag.
  3. ↑ "Bruuns Galleri". Retrieved 10 October 2018.

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