Skørping station

Skørping station
Front facade of Skørping station
Location	Sverriggårdsvej 4 DK-9520 Skørping Denmark
Coordinates	56°50′09″N 9°53′14″E / 56.83583°N 9.88722°ECoordinates: 56°50′09″N 9°53′14″E / 56.83583°N 9.88722°E
Owned by	Banedanmark
Operated by	DSB
Line(s)	Randers-Aalborg Line
Platforms	2
Tracks	3
History
Opened	1889
Services
Preceding station   Danske Statsbaner   Following station Arden toward Copenhagen Airport Copenhagen - Frederikshavn InterCity Støvring toward Frederikshavn Arden toward Århus H Aarhus-Aalborg-Frederikshavn Regional train Terminus Aalborg Commuter Rail Commuter train Støvring toward Lindholm
Location
Skørping station Location within Denmark

Skørping station is a Danish railway station, located in the town of Skørping south of Aalborg, Denmark. The station is located on the Randers-Aalborg Line from Randers to Aalborg and is the southern terminus of the Aalborg Commuter Rail service. The train services are operated by DSB.

History

Platforms of Skørping station

The station opened in 1889. In 2003 it became the southern terminus of the new Aalborg Commuter Rail service.

Operations

The train services are operated by DSB. The station offers direct InterCity services to Copenhagen and Frederikshavn, regional train services to Aarhus and Frederikshavn as well as commuter train services to Lindholm station in Nørresundby.

In literature

Danish writer Herman Bang's novel Ved Vejen was inspired by an incident in 1883 when he was passing through Skørping Station. He noticed a young woman at the window who, her pale face couched in her hands, stared after his departing train. In the introduction to Stille Eksistenser he explains: "For the rest of the journey, I could see the woman's face between the flowers. Her look was not quite one of longing — longing would have perhaps fluttered to death by breaking its wings in such tight confines — just a quite resignation, a waning sorrow. And when the train had slid by, she would be peering out with the same look over Egnens Lyng — over the dreary plain."

Bang started writing the novel in 1885 in Vienna, after remembering Skørping Station: "It was in one of those windows behind the flowers that I saw her face, a face which I had not been able to erase from my memory for two years and which, as if a painter, I felt like drawing in soft, melancholic, almost blurry lines and using it as a kind of cover illustration for this book."^[1]

References

1. Johannes Fibiger, "Hvordan Bang blev forfatter", Forfatterweb. (Danish) Retrieved 11 February 2013.

External links

• (Danish) Banedanmark
• (Danish) DSB
• (Danish) Nordjyllands Jernbaner