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Odin, the fi rst locomotive on the line connecting Copenhagen to Roskilde, in 1847.<br />
Railway makes its comeback<br />
Today, new lines are being built or planned,<br />
such as the one that will connect<br />
Copenhagen to Ringsted via Køge; other lines<br />
are being electrifi ed, under the combined<br />
effect of the convenience offered by<br />
‘fi xed links(*)’ between islands and the Danes’<br />
environmental awareness, effectively relayed<br />
by DSB’s communication to its customers.<br />
In recent years, these ‘fi xed links’ have not<br />
only helped rail to recover market share<br />
from the road, but also transformed the way<br />
of life for Danes and Swedes on both sides<br />
of the Öresund, making Copenhagen<br />
and Malmö a single totally integrated urban<br />
area with, at its centre, the international<br />
airport of Kastrup.<br />
On the museum’s mezzanine level we<br />
fi nd irresistible 1/20 scale models of the IC3<br />
and the Øresundtåg, the regional train<br />
operated jointly by DSB and JS (the Swedish<br />
rail operator) across the straight.<br />
A museum for all<br />
An incredible journey through 170 years of rail<br />
history, since the fi rst locomotives imported<br />
from England, the Danish Railway Museum’s<br />
exceptional collection is the pride of its<br />
director: “We feel that we are offering the best<br />
collection in Europe north of Berlin! A good<br />
third of the 90,000 visitors whom we welcome<br />
each year are not Danish. That is why all<br />
the signposting is trilingual: Danish, English<br />
and German. The museum’s vocation<br />
is to be a place of interest for families and<br />
not just for railways buffs.<br />
It enables children to play with locomotives,<br />
and gives them the impression that they are<br />
driving them. And then, as we are in Denmark,<br />
they can build trains in Lego… We know<br />
that it is generally the mothers who make<br />
decisions about their children’s leisure time,<br />
and that they are looking for places where<br />
(*) ‘Fixed links’ designate a series of bridges and tunnels which link<br />
between them the main Danish islands (such as the Great Belt with<br />
its two bridges of nearly 7 km each and its 8 km bi-tube tunnel) as well<br />
as Denmark to Sweden (by the Öresund link, which combines a bridge<br />
nearly 8 km long, a 4 km artifi cial island and a 4 km tunnel).<br />
�<br />
A huge choice of Lego trains...<br />
in Legoland (ref. AT Magazine n°3).<br />
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