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Denmark: Railway Information

DSB (Danske Statsbaner, the Danish State Railways, including the private train company 'Arriva') and a small number of railway companies cover the country with a dense network of train services supplemented by buses on quieter stretches.

Eurail Passes for Denmark:

Danish railway company

Logo Danish Railways

The national railway company of Denmark is called DSB (Danish State Railways - Danske Statsbaner).

Visit the website of the Danish railway company DSB: English version / Danish.


Network

Hourly services of modern InterCity trains connect København (Copenhagen) and Zealand with the main towns. Furthermore a train leaves for Odense on the island Funen every half hour. The InterCityLyn trains reach Aarhus from København within 3 hours and Odense is only a 1¼ hours’ train journey away from København. InterCityLyn is a fast train with fewer stops.

The Denmark InterCity trains ( day train) have 2 categories:

  • "Business" (former 1st-class)
  • • "Standard" (former 2nd-class)

Travelling by night train one can use the return service from Denmark to Germany to the following stations:

  • Köln / Dortmund (Germany)
  • Stuttgart (Germany)
  • Munich (Germany)

Denmark - Sweden combined tunnel / bridge connection
A tunnel / bridge link connects Copenhagen with Malmö in Sweden. Every 20 minutes a train service operates between Helsingør (Elsinore), Copenhagen and Malmö, and on the Swedish side of the Öresund trains will go to Helsingborg and Kristianstad. 
Connections to Gothenburg and Stockholm in Sweden: there are direct trains from Copenhagen to Gothenburg. For Stockholm you have to change in Malmö.

Special trains

You can travel by train through Europe on a large variety of special trains. Examples are high-speed trains, scenic trains or night trains.

Special trains mostly require a small supplement or a reservation fee from Eurail Pass holders. See the list of supplements for international trains and the information about train reservations. You can plan your trip with the help of online timetables.

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