Høje Taastrup station is a railway station in Høje-Taastrup

Høje-Taastrup

Høje-Taastrup Kommune is a municipality in Region Hovedstaden on the island of Zealand in eastern Denmark. The municipality covers an area of 78 km² , and has a total population of 47,158...

 municipality, Denmark

Denmark

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, opened on 30 May 1986.

The station is one of the largest in Denmark. It is the terminus of S-train

S-Train

The S-train network is a combined urban rapid transit and suburban rail network of Metropolitan Copenhagen, Denmark. It connects the city center with the inner suburbs of Copenhagen, and has close to half of the stations within the urban city. The first line was opened in 1934...

 services B

B (S-train)

B is a service on the S-train network in Copenhagen. It runs between Høje Taastrup and Holte and provides stopping services on the S-train system's Tåstrup radial and the inner part of the Hillerød radial....

 and B+ on the Taastrup radial

Vestbanen (S-tog)

One of the six S-train radial lines in Copenhagen runs along the long-distance tracks on Vestbanen and provides local train service on its inner parts. The S-trains end at Høje Taastrup about 20 km west of the city center.-Stations:-Service patterns:The principal service is B which stops at...

, and it is serviced by regional

Régional

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 and InterCity

InterCity

InterCity is the classification applied to certain long-distance passenger train services in Europe...

 and even international train

Train

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s, as well as express bus 400S.

At the south end of the railroad station complex stands "Thor's Tower" (Torstårnet), the tallest sculpture in the Nordic countries. The train station itself has three distinctive arches, which have become a symbol of the municipality, and have given rise to the moniker "The City of Arches" (Danish: Buernes By, which in a play on words sounds remarkably similar to the phrase Byernes By or "The City of Cities").