Hirtshalsbanen

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Hirtshalsbanen is a 16.1 km (10 mi) long railway in Denmark

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

, going from Hjørring

Hjørring

Hjørring Municipality is a municipality in North Denmark Region on the west coast of the island of Vendsyssel-Thy at the top of the Jutland peninsula in northern Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 929,58 km², making it the largest in Vendsyssel, and it has a total population of 67,121...

 to Hirtshals

Hirtshals

Hirtshals is a town in Hjørring municipality in Region Nordjylland on the north coast of the island of Vendsyssel-Thy at the top of the Jutland peninsula in northern Denmark, Europe.-The town of Hirtshals:...

. Hirtshalsbanen is a part of Nordjyske Jernbaner

Nordjyske Jernbaner

Nordjyske Jernbaner A/S is a Danish railway company operating in Vendsyssel. The company was formed in 2001 as a merger of Hjørring Privatbaner A/S and Skagensbanen A/S...

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The railway links the harbour of Hirtshals with the Danish State Railways. Construction started in April 1924, and the railway was opened the following year. In 2005 the current Siemens

Siemens AG

Siemens AG is a German multinational conglomerate company headquartered in Munich, Germany. It is the largest Europe-based electronics and electrical engineering company....

 Desiro trains, which have a maximum speed of 120 km/h (75 mph), were introduced.

Apart from local passenger traffic, there are transit freight train

Freight train

A freight train or goods train is a group of freight cars or goods wagons hauled by one or more locomotives on a railway, ultimately transporting cargo between two points as part of the logistics chain...

s linking Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 to the European continent. The freight cars are transferred on the railway ferry from Hirtshals to Kristiansand. An international passenger service from Hirtshals south to Hamburg

Hamburg

-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...

, Nordpilen, ceased many years ago.

Stations

• Hjørring station
• Kvægtorvet halt
• Teglgårdsvej halt
• Herregårdsparken halt
• Vellingshøj station
• Vidstrup station
• Sønderby halt
• Tornby station
• Horne station
• Emmersbæk halt
• Lilleheden halt
• Hirtshals station

Previous stations

• Color Line halt - between Lilleheden halt and Hirtshals station
• Raundrup halt - between Horne station and Tornby station
• Langholm - between Vellingshøj station and Vidstrup station

External links

Nordjyske Jernbaner Nordjyllands Jernbaner