Thursday, December 1, 2011

the Copenhagen Main Station turns 100 today

A stamp issued by the Danish Post Office last month
a photo in the New Zealand Railways Magazine in 1932 showing the concourse.
The north facade viewed from the Vesterbrogade; tracks run underneath the bridge to the platforms.
an S-Bahn train from the mid-1960s on the left.

The present København Hovedbanegård or København H or just KH was opened on 1 December 1911.  The building, designed by Heinrich Wenck, is the third on the site and has 13 platforms serving S-Bahn and long distance trains including those to the Kastrup airport and across the Øresund bridge to Malmö in Sweden.  The concourse is at street level; the platforms are below and reached by escalators.

We still have a couple of copies of the 75th anniversary book published in 1986 available.

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