page_title: History of rail transport in Denmark
section_title: Expanding the main lines
hierarchical_section_title: History of rail transport in Denmark / Expanding the main lines
caption_attribution_description: Dansk: Ingeniørkasernen i København, den senere Svanemøllens Kaserne. Sporarbejde på den banestrækning, der nu er del af S-togsnettet (lige nord for Svanemøllen Station, hvor banen deler sig) English: Barracks in the north of Copenhagen, Denmark. The railway lines are now part of the S-train network of the city
context_page_description: The history of rail transport in Denmark began in 1847 with the opening of a railway line between Copenhagen and Roskilde. The Kiel-Altona line in Holstein was completed three years earlier, but the region was later lost to the German Confederation in the Second War of Schleswig.
  The Danish national railway operator, DSB, was established in 1885. Until recently, DSB administered most aspects of rail operations in Denmark proper, but the politically decided privatization efforts during the 1990s, has resulted in several local lines and tasks being outsourced to a number of privately owned companies. The multinational company of Arriva, is currently among the largest of these, operating c. 17% of the Danish rail network.
context_section_description: Following ratification of the Danish Constitution in 1849, there was political will to improve trade routes to England and provide better connections between Copenhagen and the rest of the country. The primary means for this was to extend the Copenhagen-Roskilde line to Korsør, on the west coast of Zealand. During the 1850s, sufficient funding to extend the line to Korsør was secured, and the new segment was opened on 26 April 1856.
  Before the First War of Schleswig, plans had been made in Schleswig to construct a railway from Flensburg, via Husum, to Tönning to limit German influence on trade. However, these plans were hampered by the war and the new political system. In 1852, the construction company Peto, Brassey and Betts (represented in Scandinavia by Samuel Morton Peto) was granted concession to build the line, which opened on 6 October 1854. The railway was very successful, carrying English transit goods until 1857, when the Øresund toll was abolished.
caption: Railway line in Denmark at the turn of the 1900s
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