Aulum railway station
railway station in Herning Municipality, Denmark
Aulum station is a railway station serving the railway town of Aulum in Central Jutland, Denmark.
Aulum station is located on the Vejle-Holstebro railway line. The station was opened in 1904 with the opening of the Herning–Holstebro section of the Vejle–Holstebro Line. The station building was designed by the Danish architect Heinrich Wenck. It offers direct InterCityLyn services to Copenhagen operated by the national railway company DSB as well as regional train services to Fredericia, Aarhus and Struer operated by the private public transport operating company GoCollective.
“Aulum railway station” enters the record as railway station in Herning Municipality, Denmark. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Aulum, railway and station can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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This entry incorporates text from “Aulum 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.