Öresundståg and the ID / border controls
I will be travelling by Öresundståg from Copenhagen airport to Helsingborg on Friday 1 June and then back again from Helsingborg to Copenhagen airport on Sunday 3 June.
I'm very worried about these ID / border controls causing delays on the train. From what I have seen on the Internet, people can be forced off the train to undergo ID / border controls and these controls can cause a delay where the train skips Copenhagen airport and stops at Tårnby, and passengers have to take another train back to the airport.
This won't be so much a problem when going to Helsingborg as I can arrive a few hours later, but when coming back it's important that I don't miss my flight. The train is supposed to come to the airport three and a half hours before my flight leaves. I am worried that if the train skips the airport and I have to take another train back I'll miss my flight.
Are these controls still being done? From what I have seen from Öresundståg's website, they are done only when going to Sweden, when coming back to Denmark there are no controls any more. Does that mean the train will go on schedule?
I've found plenty of articles on the Internet about Öresundståg skipping the airport but these are from 2016. That was two years ago. Does this mean that now that there apparently are no controls being done when coming back to Denmark, the trains stop at the airport as normal?
I'm not worried about the controls as such, as I'm a Nordic citizen and have a valid passport. What I'm worried about is that they might cause me to miss my train connections and most importantly, miss my flight back home.
Best Answer
Going to Sweden, the train will stop at Hyllie, the first Swedish station, whereby our police may come onboard, walk through the train and check passports/IDs. Usually they won't even check your document in detail; I myself only hold up my ID card, they check for half a second that I have something, and then move on.
Going back to Denmark there are no checks whatsoever; there never were.
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It turned out that there was no problem whatsoever. The trains were on time in both directions. When going to Sweden I had to undergo passport control. The Swedish police came on board the train and asked for my passport. I showed it to them and everything was OK. When coming back to Denmark to catch my flight back home I didn't even have to undergo passport control, it was just a normal train ride. I actually fell asleep on the train and thus had to skip photographing the Öresund bridge.
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