Alken railway station, Denmark


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 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. It's small station building built to designs by the Danish architect Niels Peder Christian Holsøe was torn down in 1979.