Might as well post my pics somewhere. They used to go on Zuckernet / Birdsite but I'm feeling disinclined to donate to billionaires.
So, some pics from yesterday. My first visit to the Danish town of Korsør.
But the main reason I went to Korsør to take pictures, was for Storebæltsbroen, the Great Belt Bridge. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Belt_Bridge
While I'm looking through my photos of it and picking out my faves, I invite you to join me enjoying Five minutes of not a lot happening at #Storebæltsbroen, #Danmark #relaxation #Denmark https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jm2UfolXAFE
You can find lots more "Five minutes of not a lot happening in Denmark" relaxation videos here. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPCSbN67rF56XGhBHbIhnxtWosOGVUEtz
This is apparently the old railway station. I didn't know that at the time.
I was actually standing on "Gamle Banegårdsplads" – Old Station Square – when I took the photo.
The nearby bridge (Storebæltsbroen) over the sea to Fyn is a relatively recent development – 1998 – and that's where the railway goes now.
Google Maps still shows a spur of the railway going *part* of the way down towards the old station – ending just next to the motorway, without crossing it. The motorway which, I imagine, is also essentially new, or at least vastly upgraded since the bridge opened. https://www.google.com/maps/@55.3539452,11.139878,16.02z
However even that is out of date, as Google Maps (satellite view) shows that the railway stops several hundred metres short of even that, ending before it gets to Tårnborgvej. https://www.google.com/maps/@55.3538597,11.1434251,171m/data=!3m1!1e3
(This is sitting sweetly at the junction of several things I love: learning about my new country and its stories; railways, and especially how they develop; and studying maps)
2014, the railway was still in place as shown in the first screenshot, going down to the motorway. With a level crossing where it crossed Tårnborgvej.
More pics https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Kors%C3%B8r_old_station
aaaaand now it's all making sense. There's the old station building, bottom right in this pic, the building with the "kink" shape. The tree-lined space is where the tracks used to be, one assumes.
But those two inlets of water, to the left? The railway tracks used to lead up to them, so that the trains could go onto the ferries over to Fyn.
and here's a model showing how that worked
[By Leif Jørgensen - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=111040507]
and I've *been* to that railway museum, so maybe I even saw this model! ^_^
@rvedotrc Is it weird that I keep looking for the DeLorean in that picture?
@sapphichazard Great Scott! 