Hellerup railway station

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Hellerup
main line and S-train railway station
Hellerup station in 2018
General information
Location	Ryvangs Allé 79C 2900 Hellerup[1] Copenhagen Municipality Denmark
Coordinates	55°43′52″N 12°34′00″E / 55.73111°N 12.56667°E / 55.73111; 12.56667
Elevation	9.3 metres (31 ft)[2]
Owned by	DSB
Line(s)
Platforms	4
Tracks	7
Connections	Bus terminal
Other information
Station code	Hl
Fare zone	2/30
History
Opened	22 July 1863; 161 years ago (22 July 1863)
Rebuilt	3 April 1934 (S-train)
Electrified	1934 (S-train) 1986 (Kystbanen)
Services
Preceding station DSB Following station Klampenborg towards Helsingør Elsinore–Copenhagen–Køge–Næstved Regional train Østerport towards Næstved Elsinore–Copenhagen–Roskilde–Næstved Regional train Preceding station S-train Following station Ryparken towards Copenhagen South F Terminus Svanemøllen towards Frederikssund C Charlottenlund towards Klampenborg Svanemøllen towards Solrød Strand A Lyngby towards Hillerød Svanemøllen towards Køge E Mon–Fri Bernstorffsvej towards Holte
Location Hellerup Location within Greater Copenhagen Show map of Greater Copenhagen Hellerup Hellerup (Denmark) Show map of Denmark

Hellerup station is a regional and S-train railway station serving the suburb of Hellerup north of Copenhagen, Denmark.^[1] The station is an important junction which is served by regional trains on the Coast Line, as well as several lines of the Copenhagen S-train network.

The station was designed by V.C.H. Wolf and opened on 22 July 1863, simultaneously with the start of service on the Klampenborg line. The station was among the first on Copenhagen's S-train network. The first S-train line (Klampenborg station to Vanløse station) included Hellerup station. This was in 1934 and the S-trains initially followed the northern path of today's F-line. Hellerup station was the fourth station from Klampenborg and the fourth from Vanløse. Since then the southern part of the F-line has a new path and several new stations have opened, all south of Hellerup.

The regional train lines goes from Nivå station to Copenhagen Airport via the City Centre, and from Helsingør via the City Centre to Copenhagen Airport and further (as Øresund train ) to Scania and some other provinces in southern Sweden. Each hour, six regional trains depart in each direction, a frequency which matches that of most S-train lines, and is unique among regional railway lines in and around Copenhagen.

The station also serves Copenhagen's S-train lines A, C, E, and F services. For the latter line the station is its northern end station or terminus. Weekdays there are 60 S-train departures every hour. There are twelve departures on Line-F (with 5 minutes between departures), and six departures in each direction for the other three lines. This gives 72 departing regional and S-trains every hour from the station's five platform tracks. This doesn't quite reflect the number of passengers who use the station, but it is still a rather important station.

Hellerup station is located within Copenhagen municipality, but the immediate surroundings form the Hellerup borough of Gentofte municipality. Central Hellerup is near the station and is along the main roads built up of blocks with 4 to 5 floors. In the smaller streets many of Copenhagen's largest villas can be found and the Hellerup area is one of the richest in Denmark.

According to the Østtællingen in 2008:^[3]

Hellerup station is seen at 1:24:10 in the 1975 Olsen-banden film The Olsen Gang on the Track.^[4]

• List of railway stations in Denmark

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hellerup Station.

• (in Danish) Banedanmark – government agency responsible for maintenance and traffic control of most of the Danish railway network
• (in Danish) DSB – the Danish national train operating company
• (in Danish) Danske Jernbaner – website with information on railway history in Denmark