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Køge Nord.
Copenhagen H to Køge Nord in about twenty minutes, on Denmark’s first railway built for high-speed trains — and you arrive through a 225-metre tube over the motorway.
Location: Køge Nord Station at dusk · Source: COBE / Dissing+Weitling
File: 32-KOEGE-NORD-SPEED / AG Speed lines
The line
Twenty minutes, one tube.
The Copenhagen–Ringsted line opened on 31 May 2019: 60 kilometres of new double track from Copenhagen via Køge to Ringsted, electrified and built for passenger trains at up to 250 km/h — Banedanmark calls it Denmark’s first railway for high-speed trains. It cost DKK 11.4 billion, and it brought a new station: Køge Nord, about twenty minutes from Copenhagen H.
You know the station before you reach it: the tube you see from the motorway is its footbridge, 225 metres long, carrying you across to the platforms. From Køge Nord it is a short hop into town — the beach, the marina and the square.
Line
Copenhagen–Ringsted via Køge: 60 km of new double track, electrified.
Opened
31 May 2019.
Design speed
250 km/h — Denmark’s first railway built for high-speed trains.
To Køge Nord
About 20 minutes from Copenhagen H.
The station
Køge Nord — a 225-metre tube-shaped footbridge across the motorway; architects COBE / Dissing+Weitling / COWI.
Also built
New platforms at Ny Ellebjerg, an extra track at Køge, track renewal at Ringsted, preparations for Lille Syd.
Cost
DKK 11.4 billion.
Source
Banedanmark, the Copenhagen–Ringsted project page, read 20 October 2026. Photograph: COBE / Dissing+Weitling, used here for concept demonstration only.
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