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Aalborg Vestby railway station

railway station in Aalborg Municipality, Denmark

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ9137918 ↗
Source-derived summary

Aalborg Vestby railway station is a railway station serving the district of Vestbyen in the city of Aalborg, Denmark.

The station is located on the Vendsyssel Line from Aalborg to Frederikshavn. It opened in 2003 as part of the new Aalborg Commuter Rail service. The train services are operated by the railway companies DSB and Nordjyske Jernbaner.

History

The station opened in 2003 as a part of the new Aalborg Commuter Rail service.

Operations

The train services are operated by the national railway company DSB and the regional railway company Nordjyske Jernbaner. The station offers direct InterCityLyn services to Copenhagen and Aalborg Airport operated by DSB as well as regional train services to Hobro, Skagen and Hirtshals operated by Nordjyske Jernbaner.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Aalborg Vestby railway station” as railway station in Aalborg Municipality, Denmark. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Aalborg, Vestby and railway.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2003—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2003. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Aalborg, Vestby and railway providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Aalborg Vestby railway station”, the useful work is to connect “railway station in Aalborg Municipality, Denmark” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q9137918. Authority coordinates are 57.053, 9.908. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2003.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Aalborg Vestby railway station” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.