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Padborg station is a railway station in the Danish town of Padborg in the southern part of Jutland. It is the last Danish train station before the border with Germany which lies immediately south of the station, on the route to Flensburg.

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Padborg
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General information
Location	Padborg Denmark
Owned by	DSB
Operated by	DSB
Services
Preceding station DSB Following station Kolding towards Copenhagen Central Copenhagen–Odense–Hamburg InterCity Hamburg Hbf Terminus Tinglev towards Aarhus Central Aarhus–Hamburg InterCity Flensburg towards Hamburg Hbf
Location
Padborg Location within Denmark Show map of Denmark Padborg Location within Europe Show map of Europe

The extensive station building has no booking office (self-service ticket machines available) but has a waiting room and toilet facilities. Office space in the station building is used by a number of railfreight companies as Padborg retains extensive railway marshalling yards north of the passenger station. A two-hourly cross-border Copenhagen-Flensburg service is operated by DSB and calls here, supplemented by a limited service of EuroCity trains penetrating further into Germany and an overnight sleeper service to/from Munich. Padborg has facilities to allow change of locomotives. Both locomotives equipped only for Danish electrical system and those equipped only for German electrical system can go to Padborg.

To the west, Tønder, Denmark on the route to Niebull is a further border station.

Pre-Schengen, Padborg was also where there was a large-scale checking of travelers passports, visas and / or other identity documents but this has disappeared after 2001 when Denmark became an active part of the Schengen cooperation. Temporarily since 2015, passports control is reintroduced. During COVID-19 pandemic, fairly much checks of border crossing certificates and vaccination documentation took place, although with more limited number of passengers.

Passenger traffic has especially gained momentum after Eurocity and CityNightLine lines was created and developed. 2019–2028 the Vogelfluglinie is closed for rail traffic, so all trains between Copenhagen and Hamburg goes through Padborg.

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