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Öresundståg train tickets
I am going on a work trip to Lund, Sweden at the end of March. The company already bought me a plane ticket to Copenhagen as Lund doesn't have an airport and the nearest Swedish airport, Malmö, has no direct connections to Helsinki.
The website of the Swedish Railways sj.se says the easiest way to get from Copenhagen Airport to Lund is the Öresundståg. The cheapest tickets cost about 179 SEK per direction which is well within my budget.
Should I buy the tickets to Öredunståg in advance or wait until I actually go on the trip? My boss, who has made this trip from Helsinki via Copenhagen to Lund several times before, said he just bought the tickets directly from the railway station when he got there. Should I do the same too?
If I buy the tickets directly from the railway station, how do I go about it? I have been on the Öresundståg before, but that was a time when I was travelling on InterRail and I just hopped on the train and marked its number and departure time on my InterRail card. Are there some kind of ticket offices or automatic ticket machines at Copenhagen Airport railway station and Lund railway station?
Asked by: JIP (talk) 12:37, 9 March 2025 (UTC)
- According to https://www.oresundstag.se/reseinfo/kopa-biljett all the Swedish stations served by Öresundtåg, as well as Copenhagen Airport and Copenhagen Central Station have ticket machines. Presumably they work with cards or payment apps on smartphones, and as this is Scandinavia it's unlikely that the machines take cash. Or you can buy the ticket online on their website, so you don't have to worry about it at the station. According to the same website, it's not possible to buy tickets onboard. --Ypsilon (talk) 16:13, 25 March 2025 (UTC)
- Thank you. This was of much help. It was easy to find the ticket machines at Copenhagen Airport. I did not have to visit Copenhagen Central Station at all. On the way back, I did not find a DSB ticket machine at Lund Central station but I did find a Skånetrafiken ticket machine and it sold tickets to Copenhagen Airport. The machines don't accept cash but they accept card payment. I bought a printed ticket at both times, and sure enough, the ticket inspector came on the train and said "Nya resande?" I just showed him my ticket, he scanned it, and that was all. The boring part on the trip is that it's pretty much impossible to photograph the rather spectacularly impressive Öresund Bridge while you're actually on the Öresund Bridge. JIP (talk) 22:13, 2 April 2025 (UTC)