Klampenborg Station
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Klampenborg Station is an 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...

 station in Copenhagen
Copenhagen
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, Denmark
Denmark
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. It is the terminus of the Klampenborg radial
Klampenborgbanen
Klampenborgbanen is the shortest of six radial S-train lines in Copenhagen. It runs parallel to the Kystbanen regional line from central Copenhagen until Klampenborg, and serves residential neighbourhoods in eastern Gentofte as well as popular recreational destinations at Klampenborg such as...

. It also serves Kystbanen
Kystbanen
The Coast Line is a regional railway line between Helsingør and Copenhagen in Denmark. It was opened in 1897, and it is today the busiest railway line in Denmark...

 between Helsingør and Malmö
Malmö
Malmö , in the southernmost province of Scania, is the third most populous city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg.Malmö is the seat of Malmö Municipality and the capital of Skåne County...

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Trains service to Klampenborg Station is used by people in large numbers who during the summer visit Dyrehavsbakken
Dyrehavsbakken
Dyrehavsbakken , commonly referred to as Bakken , is the world's oldest operating amusement park. It is located near Klampenborg but belongs under Lyngby-Taarbæk Kommune, Denmark about 10 km north of Copenhagen...

 or enjoy the sun at Bellevue Strandbad.

The current station was built in 1897 but train service began by DSJS in 1863 and was taken over by DSB in . The station was among the first serviced by the 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...

, as when the line Frederiksberg-Vanløse-Hellerup-Klampenborg was opened.

All of the station buildings are deemed worth of preservation and thereby protected by law.

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