Sparkær railway station

Railway station in Jutland, Denmark

Preceding station	GoCollective			Following station
Viborg towards Århus H		Aarhus–Struer Regional train		Stoholm towards Struer

Location
Sparkær Location within Denmark

Sparkær railway station is a railway station serving the small railway town of Sparkær in Jutland, Denmark.^[1]

The station is located on the Langå-Struer Line from Langå to Struer. It opened in 1865, closed in 1979, but reopened in 2022.^[2]^[3]^[4] It offers direct regional train services to Aarhus and Struer. The train services are operated by the railway company GoCollective.^[1]

History

Sparkær station opened on 17 October 1865 with the opening of the Viborg-Skive section of the Langå-Struer railway line.^[2]^[4] On 27 May 1979 the station was closed, but the station reopened on 11 December 2022.^[3]

Operations

The train services are operated by the mulitinational railway company GoCollective. The station offers direct regional train services to Aarhus and Struer.^[1]

References

Citations

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Sparkær Station" (in Danish). GoCollective. Retrieved 20 April 2024.
^ ^a ^b ^c Jensen 1979, p. 8.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Sparkær Station (Sp) on Danske Jernbaner
^ ^a ^b ^c Lise, Soelberg; Poulsen, Allan Bo (11 December 2022). "I 43 år har de set toget suse forbi, men fra i dag standser det: 'Det har vi dæleme set frem til'" [For 43 years they have watched the train whiz by, but from today it stops: 'We've been looking forward to that']. dr.dk (in Danish). Danish Broadcasting Corporation.

Bibliography

Jensen, Niels (1979). Midtjyske jernbaner (in Danish). Copenhagen: J.Fr. Clausens Forlag. ISBN 87-11-03904-3.

External links

(in Danish) Banedanmark – government agency responsible for maintenance and traffic control of most of the Danish railway network
(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