Alken station

Alken station is a railway station serving the village of Alken in East Jutland, Denmark. The station is located in the centre of the village a short distance from the Mossø lake in the Søhøjlandet (English: the Lake-highland) area of Central Jutland. The station is located on the Skanderborg–Skjern railway line from Skanderborg to Skjern. The train services are currently operated by the private public transport company GoCollective which run frequent regional train services between Aarhus and Herning. The station opened on 2 May 1871 with the Skanderborg-Silkeborg section of the Skanderborg-Skjern railway. Its small station building built to designs by the Danish architect Niels Peder Christian Holsøe (1826–1895) was torn down in 1979. List of railway stations in Denmark Rail transport in Denmark Official website (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

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