Sundsøre Warehouse
Sundsøre Pakhus is a historic warehouse built in 1927, originally part of the freight station serving the railway ferry M/F Hvalpsund. Today, it is run by a local association and serves as a cultural and historical site featuring exhibitions, tourist information, and primitive overnight stays in restored freight wagons.
Sundsøre was a small freight station, established in 1927 in connection with Aalborg Private Railways' introduction of the railway ferry “M/F Hvalpsund”.
The station consisted of a warehouse and a track system for freight wagons.
From a small winch house, the wagons were shunted using an electrically powered wire pull along the tracks.
In 1969, Aalborg Private Railways' connection to Hvalpsund was discontinued, and the ferry service was taken over by the municipalities on either side of the strait: Farsø and Sundsøre.
By the late 1990s, the warehouse was in such poor condition that it was scheduled for demolition. However, a group of locals had other plans and founded the association “Sundsøre Pakhus” on February 23, 1999. The two municipalities transferred ownership of the building for the symbolic amount of 1 krone.
With funding from grants and other contributions, a thorough restoration began the following year and was completed in 2001.
The track system was partially recreated, and the association acquired three freight wagons of the types once used by Aalborg Private Railways. These were restored, and one of them—a so-called Q-wagon—was converted into a primitive overnight accommodation with 12 sleeping places.
The other freight wagons house an unmanned tourist information center about the local area and tell the story of the site's railway past: transportation and freight between different regions in a time not so far removed from our own.