Fredericia station ( or ''Fredericia Station'') is a railway station serving the city of

Fredericia Fredericia () is a town located in Fredericia Municipality in the southeastern part of the Jutland peninsula in Denmark. The city is part of the Triangle Region Denmark, Triangle Region, which includes the neighbouring cities of Kolding and Vej ...

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. Fredericia station is an important railway junction where the Copenhagen-Fredericia Line, the Fredericia-Aarhus Line, and the Flensburg-Fredericia Line all cross each other. The station was opened in 1935 together with the opening of the

Little Belt Bridge The Little Belt Bridge (), also known as the Old Little Belt Bridge (), is a truss bridge over the Little Belt strait in Denmark. It spans from Snoghøj on the Jutland side to Middelfart on Funen. The bridge is owned by the Danish state, with ...

across the

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. The train services are operated by the railway company DSB.

History

The current station is the second in Fredericia. It replaced the first station, which had been opened in 1866 and was located by the harbour from where there had been a connection via railway ferry across the

to Strib on the island

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. The current station was opened in 1935 together with the opening of the

across the Little Belt.

Architecture

The second and present station building from 1935 in a functionalist style with a touch of

Nordic Classicism Nordic Classicism was a Architectural style, style of architecture that briefly blossomed in the Nordic countries (Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland) between 1910 and 1930. The style was also known as Swedish Grace architecture in Sweden. Until ...

was designed by the Danish architect Knud Tanggaard Seest who was the head architect of the Danish State Railways from 1922 to 1949. The station is one of only five in Denmark with a

train shed A train shed is a building adjacent to a station building where the tracks and platforms of a railway station are covered by a roof. It is also known as an overall roof. Its primary purpose is to store and protect from the elements train car ...

covering the tracks and platforms. The old station at the harbour also had a train shed, which has been demolished.

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Banedanmark
– government agency responsible for

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and traffic control of most of the Danish railway network *
DSB
– largest Danish train operating company *
Danske Jernbaner
– website with information on railway history in Denmark Fredericia Buildings and structures in Fredericia Municipality Railway stations in the Region of Southern Denmark Railway stations in Denmark opened in 1935 Knud Tanggaard Seest railway stations {{Denmark-railstation-stub