Kolind railway station
Kolind station is a railway station serving the railway town of Kolind on the Djursland peninsula in Jutland, Denmark.
The station is located on the Grenaa railway line between Aarhus and Grenaa. It was opened in 1876 with the opening of the Randers-Ryomgaard-Grenaa Line.
Since 2019, the station has been served by the Aarhus [light rail] system, a tram-train network combining tram lines in the city of Aarhus with operation on railway lines in the surrounding countryside.
History
The station opened on 26 August 1876 as the railway company Østjyske Jernbane opened the railway line Randers-Ryomgaard-Grenaa from Randers to Grenaa. In 1877, ØJJ opened a branch line from Ryomgård to Aarhus, and just a few years later the trains starting running directly between Grenaa and Aarhus, with the Ryomgård-Randers section being reduced to a branch line used mostly for rail [freight transport] until it was closed altogether on 2 May 1971.From 2016 to 2019, the station was temporarily closed along with the Grenaa railway line while it was being reconstructed and electrified to form part of the Aarhus light rail system, a tram-train network combining tram lines in the city of Aarhus with operation on railway lines in the surrounding countryside. Since 2019, the station has been served by Line L1 of the Aarhus light rail network, operated by the multinational transportation company Keolis.