Other formats

    TEI XML file   ePub eBook file  

Connect

    mail icontwitter iconBlogspot iconrss icon

The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 7, Issue 4 (August 1, 1932)

The Danish State Railways

The Danish State Railways.

Danish trains keep to the right-hand track, instead of the left-hand, as in Britain. Maximum passenger train speed is sixty miles an hour, and the principal expresses are composed of luxurious refreshment, drawing-room and sleeping cars. Copenhagen, the capital, has a very fine central passenger station, which is the headquarters of the State Railway system. Through carriages are run daily between Copenhagen and Berlin, Hamburg, Oslo, and other points, and many of these trains in the course of their journeys pass over the famous Baltic train-ferries that link Denmark with neighbouring countries.

Probably the outstanding feature of Danish railway travel is its unexcelled cleanliness. The Dane is a particular person in his habits, and every railway station has its row of waste-paper baskets and sand tubs ranged along the platforms, while the interiors of passenger carriages are absolutely spotless. The Danish railway tracks are neatly fenced off from the fields, and the roadbed is well ballasted, the rails of the flat-bottomed type being spiked to wooden sleepers. The heaviest rails weigh 911b. per yard.

page 18