Valby station

Valby
DSB railway station
Station statistics
Address 1A Mellemtoftevej, Valby
Platforms 1 side platform
2 island platforms
Tracks 5
Other information
Opened 1911
Owned by DSB
Services
Preceding station   S-train   Following station
H
toward Farum
C
Bx
toward Østerport
B
toward Holte
Preceding station   Danske Statsbaner   Following station
toward Lufthavnen
Copenhagen-Frederikshavn
InterCity
Copenhagen-Esbjerg
InterCity
toward Esbjerg
Copenhagen-Sønderborg/Padborg
InterCity
toward Sønderborg or Padborg
toward Helsingør
Elsinore-Roskilde
toward Roskilde
Copenhagen-Roskilde
Copenhagen-Odense
toward Odense
toward Østerport
Copenhagen-Nykøbing F/Rødby/Gedser
toward Rødby Færge or Gedser
Copenhagen-Kalundborg
toward Kalundborg

Valby station is a railway station in the Valby district of Copenhagen, Denmark. It is located where the Tåstrup and Frederikssund radials of the S-train network diverge, and is served by trains on either radial. Some regional and intercity trains also stop at Valby, mainly to provide transfers to the Frederikssund S-trains. Several express busses to Jutland terminate and depart from this station.

History

The first railway out of Copenhagen in 1847 had an intermediate station slightly east of where Valby station is today. The station was originally meant to serve mostly leisure trips to nearby Frederiksberg; it had a booming traffic in the railway's first years, which however dwindled as the novelty wore off. The station was closed in 1864 when the second main station on Copenhagen opened and the railway was displaced through Frederiksberg station instead.

In 1911 the current (third) central station was inaugurated almost at the site of the first one, and the railway moved back to its original alignment through Valby. The current station was built, this time as a junction between the railways to Roskilde and Frederikssund. Over the years the city had grown towards Valby, so the station now had a sizeable native passenger base.

On 1 November 1934, S-trains began running from central Copenhagen to a temporary platform at Valby east of Toftegårds Allé. When the inner part of Frederikssundbanen until Vanløse was electrified on 23 September 1941 the temporary platform closed and the S-trains now stopped at Valby station proper on their way to Vanløse.

In 1950-1953, the station was rebuilt once again with a grade-separated junction west of the platforms to join the S-train line towards Vanløse with the new line along Vestbanen, which was inaugurated on 17 June 1953.

References

External links

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