Rønbjerg Station 1877-1979
The Skive-Struer line was built in the years 1863-1865. The work was carried out by the English contractors Peto, Brassey & Betts. Despite the Second Schleswig War in 1864, they continued their work unabated. The Skive-Struer section was finally completed on November 17, 1865 at a cost of 1.8 million kroner.
For several times, both before and after the construction of the line, it was debated whether train travel through the sparsely populated moorland area of Rønbjerg and Hvidemose was optimal. In the years immediately after the line was completed, a large industry based on peat extraction grew up in the area, which benefited greatly from the presence of the line.
In Hvidemose, a private track was established in 1875 that connected to the railway line, while a loading track for peat was built in Rønbjerg in 1889-1890.
In the early years of the line, there were a total of four daily trains, two in each direction, chugging through the town at around 30 kilometers per hour.
Initially, there was no station in Rønbjerg, which wasn’t built until 1877, from where only third class tickets could be purchased. The price for a trip to Skive was 25 øre.
The station building and bus stop in Rønbjerg was closed in 1979, and the building was demolished shortly afterwards.
Literature:
Laustsen, Svend: “Estvad og Rønbjerg sogne. 1. del : Hovedtræk af sognenes historie indtil 1880”, Skive Museums Forlag, 2000
Skive Byarkiv: “Rønbjerg Station” from https://arkiv.dk/vis/5940785, last visited 18-12-2024
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