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Thisted railway station

Railway station in Thisted Municipality, Denmark

Preceding station	GoCollective			Following station
Sjørring towards Struer		Struer–Thisted Regional train		Terminus

Location
Thisted Station Location within Denmark

Thisted station (Danish: Thisted Station or Thisted Banegård) is a railway station serving the town of Thisted in Thy, Denmark.^[1]

The station is the northern terminus of the Thy Line from Struer to Thisted. The station opened in 1882 with the opening of the Thy Line. The train services are currently operated by GoCollective which run frequent local train services between Thisted and Struer.^[2]

History

DMU from DSB at Thisted station in 1976.

The station opened on 20 April 1882 to serve as the northern terminus of the new railway line from Struer to Thisted. In 1904, Thisted station also became the western terminus of the new Thisted-Fjerritslev railway line, which connected with the Fjerritslev-Frederikshavn railway line in Fjerritslev. The Thisted-Fjerritslev Line closed in 1969. In 2003, operation of the local rail services between Thisted and Struer were transferred from DSB to the public transport company Arriva.^[4]

Architecture

The station building from 1881 was designed by the Danish architect N.P.C. Holsøe who was head architect of the Danish State Railways.^[3]

Operations

The train services are currently operated by GoCollective which run frequent local train services from Thisted station to Struer with onward connections to the rest of Denmark.^[2] DSB ran a twice daily InterCity service to Copenhagen until December 2019.^[5]

References

Citations

^ ^a ^b "Thisted Station" (in Danish). GoCollective. Retrieved 20 April 2024.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Om GoCollective – Tog" (in Danish). GoCollective. Retrieved 20 April 2024.
^ ^a ^b Vigand Rasmussen. "N.P. Holsøe". Kunstindeks Danmark & Weilbach Kunstnerleksikon. Retrieved June 29, 2021.
^ "Historien om Arriva Tog i Danmark" (in Danish). Arriva. Retrieved 12 October 2021.
^ "Sidste DSB tog på Thybanen - YouTube". YouTube. Retrieved 3 August 2023.

Bibliography

Jensen, Niels (1976). Nordjyske jernbaner (in Danish). Copenhagen: J.Fr. Clausens Forlag. ISBN 87-11-03756-3.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Thisted Station.

(in Danish) Banedanmark – government agency responsible for maintenance and traffic control of most of the Danish railway network
(in Danish) DSB – largest Danish train operating company
(in Danish) GoCollective – private public transport company operating bus and train services in Denmark
(in Danish) Danske Jernbaner – website with information on railway history in Denmark