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Thisted railway station

Coordinates: 56°57′9.5″N 8°41′17″E / 56.952639°N 8.68806°E / 56.952639; 8.68806
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Thisted Station

Thisted Banegård
terminal railway station
Platform facade of Thisted station
General information
LocationJernbanegade 29
7700 Thisted[1]
Thisted Municipality
Denmark
Coordinates56°57′9.5″N 8°41′17″E / 56.952639°N 8.68806°E / 56.952639; 8.68806
Owned byDSB
Operated byGoCollective[2]
Line(s)Thy Line
Platforms2
Tracks2
Construction
ArchitectN.P.C. Holsøe[3]
History
Opened20 April 1881
Services
Preceding station GoCollective Following station
Sjørring
towards Struer
StruerThisted Terminus
Location
Thisted Station is located in Denmark
Thisted Station
Thisted Station
Location within Denmark
Map

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

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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

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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

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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]

See also

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References

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Citations

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

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