Skørping station


Skørping station is a Danish railway station, located in the town of Skørping south of Aalborg, Denmark. The station is located on the Randers-Aalborg Line from Randers to Aalborg and is the southern terminus of the Aalborg Commuter Rail service. The train services are operated by the railway companies DSB and Nordjyske Jernbaner.

History

The station opened in 1889. In 2003 it became the southern terminus of the new Aalborg Commuter Rail service.

Operations

The train services are operated by the railway companies DSB and Nordjyske Jernbaner. The station offers direct InterCity services to Copenhagen and Aalborg, regional train services to Aarhus and Aalborg as well as commuter train services to Aalborg.

In literature

Danish writer Herman Bang's novel Ved Vejen was inspired by an incident in 1883 when he was passing through Skørping Station. He noticed a young woman at the window who, her pale face couched in her hands, stared after his departing train. In the introduction to Stille Eksistenser he explains: "For the rest of the journey, I could see the woman's face between the flowers. Her look was not quite one of longing — longing would have perhaps fluttered to death by breaking its wings in such tight confines — just a quite resignation, a waning sorrow. And when the train had slid by, she would be peering out with the same look over Egnens Lyng — over the dreary plain."
Bang started writing the novel in 1885 in Vienna, after remembering Skørping Station: "It was in one of those windows behind the flowers that I saw her face, a face which I had not been able to erase from my memory for two years and which, as if a painter, I felt like drawing in soft, melancholic, almost blurry lines and using it as a kind of cover illustration for this book."