Sparkær railway station

Sparkær
railway station
General information
Location	Sparkær Mosevej 3 Sparkær, 8800 Viborg[1] Viborg Municipality Denmark
Coordinates	56°28′31″N 09°13′40″E
Elevation	20.3 metres (67 ft)[2]
Owned by	Banedanmark
Operated by	GoCollective[1]
Line(s)	Langå-Struer Line
Platforms	1
Tracks	1
History
Opened	17 October 1865[3] 11 December 2022[2][4]
Closed	27 May 1979[2]
Services
Preceding station GoCollective Following station Viborg towards Århus H Aarhus–Struer Regional train Stoholm towards Struer
Location Sparkær Location within Denmark

Sparkær railway station is a railway station serving the small railway town of Sparkær in Jutland, Denmark.[1]

The station is located on the Langå-Struer Line from Langå to Struer. It opened in 1865, closed in 1979, but reopened in 2022.[3][2][4] It offers direct regional train services to Aarhus and Struer. The train services are operated by the railway company GoCollective.[1]

History

Sparkær station opened on 17 October 1865 with the opening of the Viborg-Skive section of the Langå-Struer railway line.[3][4] On 27 May 1979 the station was closed, but the station reopened on 11 December 2022.[2]

Operations

The train services are operated by the mulitinational railway company GoCollective. The station offers direct regional train services to Aarhus and Struer.[1]

See also

• List of railway stations in Denmark

References

Citations

1. "Sparkær Station" (in Danish). GoCollective. Retrieved 20 April 2024.
2. Sparkær Station (Sp) on Danske Jernbaner
3. Jensen 1979, p. 8.
4. Lise, Soelberg; Poulsen, Allan Bo (11 December 2022). "I 43 år har de set toget suse forbi, men fra i dag standser det: 'Det har vi dæleme set frem til'" [For 43 years they have watched the train whiz by, but from today it stops: 'We've been looking forward to that']. dr.dk (in Danish). Danish Broadcasting Corporation.

Bibliography

• Jensen, Niels (1979). Midtjyske jernbaner (in Danish). Copenhagen: J.Fr. Clausens Forlag. ISBN 87-11-03904-3.

Further reading

• Mogensen, Ole Edvard (10 December 2022). "Nabobyerne sagde nej og Sparkær blev en stationsby" [The neighboring towns said no and Sparkær became a station town] (in Danish). Viborg Stifts Folkeblad.

External links

• (in Danish) Banedanmark – government agency responsible for maintenance and traffic control of most of the Danish railway network
• (in Danish) GoCollective – private public transport company operating bus and train services in Denmark
• (in Danish) Danske Jernbaner – website with information on railway history in Denmark