Middelfart railway station

Railway station in Funen, Denmark

Preceding station		Following station
Odense towards Copenhagen Central	Copenhagen-Aalborg InterCity	Fredericia towards Aalborg
Odense towards Østerport	Copenhagen–Esbjerg InterCity	Kolding towards Esbjerg
Kauslunde towards Odense	Odense–Fredericia Regional train	Fredericia Terminus

Location
Middelfart railway station Location within Denmark

Middelfart railway station (Danish: Middelfart Station or Middelfart Banegård) is a railway station serving the town of Middelfart on the western part of the island of Funen, Denmark.^[1] It is located in the centre of the town, on the southern edge of the historic town centre.

Middelfart station is located on the main line Copenhagen–Fredericia railway from Copenhagen to Funen and Jutland. The station offers direct InterCity services to Copenhagen, Funen and Jutland, regional rail services to Fredericia and Odense operated by the national railway company DSB.^[1]

The current station is the second station in Nyborg. The first station in the town opened in 1865 as the western terminus of the Funen Main Line between Nyborg and Middelfart via Odense.^[4] The original station was the terminus of the Middelfart–Strib railway line, a short branch line to the harbour at Strib from where there was connection via railway ferry across the Little Belt to Fredericia in the Jutland peninsula.^[5] Middelfart station was moved to its current location in 1935 with the opening of the Little Belt Bridge.^[2] Its second and current station building from 1935 was designed by the architect Knud Tanggaard Seest.^[3]

History

The current station is the second station in Middelfart. The first station in the town opened in 1865 as the western terminus of the socalled Queen Louise's Railway, the main line across the island of Funen between Nyborg and Middelfart via Odense.^[4] The station was inaugurated along with the railway line on Queen Louise's 48th birthday the 7 September 1865, with regular traffic commencing the following day.^[6]

The following year, on 1 november 1866, a short branch line, the Middelfart–Strib railway line, opened from Middelfart station to the harbour at Strib 5 kilometers north of Middelfart, from where there was connection via railway ferry across the Little Belt to Fredericia in the Jutland peninsula.^[5]

In 1935, with the opening of the Little Belt Bridge, Middelfart station was moved to its current location.^[2]

Architecture

The second and current station building from 1935 was designed by the Danish architect Knud Tanggaard Seest who was the head architect of the Danish State Railways from 1922 to 1949.^[3]

References

Citations

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Middelfart Station" (in Danish). DSB. Retrieved 30 April 2024.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Middelfart Station (Md)". danskejernbaner.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 30 April 2024.
^ ^a ^b ^c Hegner Christiansen, Jørgen. "K.T. Seest" (in Danish). Kunstindeks Danmark & Weilbach Kunstnerleksikon. Retrieved 27 January 2023.
^ ^a ^b ^c Jensen 1972, p. 28.
^ ^a ^b Jensen 1972, p. 31.
^ Jensen 1972, p. 28-29.

Bibliography

Jensen, Niels (1972). Danske Jernbaner 1847–1892 (in Danish). Copenhagen: J.Fr. Clausens Forlag. ISBN 87-11-01765-1.
Jensen, Niels (1976). Fynske jernbaner (in Danish). Copenhagen: J.Fr. Clausens Forlag. ISBN 87-11-03736-9.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Middelfart Station (new).

(in Danish) Banedanmark – government agency responsible for maintenance and traffic control of most of the Danish railway network
(in Danish) DSB – the Danish national train operating company
(in Danish) Danske Jernbaner – website with information on railway history in Denmark