Copenhagen Airport railway station
Railway station serving Copenhagen Airport, Denmark
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Copenhagen Airport railway station (Danish: Københavns Lufthavn Station) is a railway station in Tårnby, Denmark, serving Copenhagen Airport.[1] It is located below ground directly under the check-in and arrival area in the airport's Terminal 3.
2770 Kastrup[1]
Tårnby Municipality
Denmark
Banedanmark (rail infrastructure)[3]
Københavns Lufthavn | |||||
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Copenhagen Airport railway station in 2005 | |||||
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| Location | Terminal 3 2770 Kastrup[1] Tårnby Municipality Denmark | ||||
| Elevation | 4.5 metres (15 ft)[2] | ||||
| System | Main line and Copenhagen Metro | ||||
| Owned by | DSB (station infrastructure)[3] Banedanmark (rail infrastructure)[3] | ||||
| Lines | |||||
| Platforms | 2 | ||||
| Tracks | 4 | ||||
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| Construction | |||||
| Structure type | Below grade | ||||
| Accessible | Yes | ||||
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| Station code | Cph | ||||
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The station is served by DSB’s regional trains, as well as the Øresundståg network (which links it to southern Sweden). The nearby Lufthavnen metro station is served by the Copenhagen Metro’s line M2. The stations take their names from Copenhagen Airport, to which they are connected. It is located in fare zone 4.
History
The station opened on 27 September 1998, and was subsequently reconstructed and reopened on 28 September 2007, with a connection to the Copenhagen Metro opening the following month.
Temporarily from 4 January 2016 to 4 May 2017, Sweden required train and bus transport companies entering Sweden to perform full identity check of every passenger, because of the European migrant crisis.[5] For that reason the Southern platform was used only for departures to Sweden, with border checks at openings in fence erected along the platform. All arrivals and all departures to Denmark used the Northern platform. Only the regional trains towards Helsingør and Sweden used Copenhagen Airport station, all other trains did not go here during this period.
Future developments
Metro station
Lufthavnen (‘Airport’) metro station is located slightly further off than the railway station, at the far end of Terminal 3 on the level 2. The metro connects to Nørreport Station and Vanløse station. The station is linked to Ørestad station on the M1 line by DSB regional trains.
Services
The station is served by the following types of trains:
- Local trains between Copenhagen Central Station and Malmö Central Station. These trains also stop at Tårnby and Ørestad en route to Copenhagen, and at Hyllie and Triangeln en route to Malmö. To Copenhagen every 10 minutes, and to Malmö every 20 minutes.
- Regional trains on Zealand and southern Sweden. Connects to Klampenborg, Helsingør, Lund, Helsingborg, Landskrona and Hässleholm.
- Intercity trains to the rest of Denmark including Odense, Fredericia, Aarhus, Esbjerg and Aalborg.
- Intercity trains in southern Sweden connects to Gothenburg, Kalmar and Karlskrona (see Øresundståg).
- High-speed X 2000 trains to Stockholm.
| Preceding station |  DSB |
Following station | ||
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| Terminus | Copenhagen-Aalborg | Copenhagen Central towards Aalborg Airport | ||
| Copenhagen-Herning-Struer | Copenhagen Central towards Struer | |||
| Copenhagen-Sønderborg | Copenhagen Central towards Sønderborg | |||
| Copenhagen–Slagelse | Tårnby towards Slagelse | |||
| Preceding station | Øresundståg | Following station | ||
| Tårnby towards Østerport |
Copenhagen–Lund | Hyllie towards Lund C | ||
| Copenhagen–Gothenburg | Hyllie towards Göteborg C | |||
| Copenhagen–Kalmar | Hyllie towards Kalmar C | |||
| Copenhagen–Karlskrona | Hyllie towards Karlskrona C | |||
| Preceding station |  SJ |
Following station | ||
| Malmö C towards Stockholm C |
Southern Main Line | Köpenhamn H Terminus | ||
| EuroNight | Odense towards Hamburg Hbf or Berlin Hbf | |||
