►► A Danish IC3 unit at Aarhus. Picture by Erland Egefors ◀◀
Train travel on an 80-mile long line in northern Denmark will be free for the whole of September, to compensate for it being closed for nearly 18 months.
Rail traffic was halted on the line from Hobro to Frederikshavn in March 2012 when the Finnish ship Ramona hit a bridge on the line near Aalborg.
It was expected that repairs would take only six months but rail traffic was disrupted for 18 months.
To make up for the suspension of rail travel for so long, Danish State Railways (DSB) is offering passengers free travel on its trains between the two places throughout September 2013.
The line from Hobro runs south to Aarhus and the German border, and north to Fredrikshavn, where there is a ferry to Gothenberg in Sweden, and Oslo in Norway.
The two other railways in north Jutland (Hjørring-Hirtshals and Frederikshavn-Skagenare) are privately operated.
Information from Erland Egefors