By Train from Hamburg (Germany) to København / Copenhagen (Denmark)

3x trains per day is the usual year round service, but another 3 x trains per day are added to the timetable during the summer.

On German rail timetables and on the station info, these trains are referred to IC trains, but Danish IC trains and not German trains are used on this route.

From December15th:

Final Destination: Koebenhavn H (German Spelling)

All trains also call at: Odense and Ringtsted (connect for Roskilde)

The three daily year-round trains are scheduled to depart from Hamburg at 08:53; 12:53 and 16:53.

The 08:53 has a good connection into a train on to Stockholm from Kobenhavn.

Both the 08:53 and 12:53 departures connect in the Danish capital into trains heading to Goteborg/Gothenburg via Helsingborg.

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The train journey from Hamburg to Kobenhavn/Copenhagen:

These trains used to be shunted on to a ferry for a sea crossing between Germany and Denmark, but the Danish part of that route is being affected by engineering weeks in preperation for the opening of the Fehmarn Fixed Link tunnel  in around 2028.

Hence this train service between Hamburg and the Danish capital has been re-routed to travel overland 
via the Jutland peninsular.

So a less fascinating journey than the previous route and scenically this route is uninteresting, but it does have three highlights, which you can't miss if you will be travelling when it's daylight.

(1)  The spectacular crossing of the Kiel Canal on the Rendsburg High Bridge - the corkscrew descent into the town and its station is quite something.

(2) After departure from Kolding the train will cross the Little Belt Bridge, which connects Jutland to the island of Funen.

(3) Then around 15 mins after departing Odense, the train will cross the Great Belt Fixed Link between Funen and the island of Zealand.