[1] The station is located on numerous railway and branch lines passing through or diverging from the main lines at this station, and is gradually being developed into a major transport hub for public transport in Copenhagen.

[5] Copenhagen South station was originally opened under the name Ny Ellebjerg (Ny meaning "New") as an interchange station between the Køge Bugt Line and the Ring Line of the Copenhagen S-train system.

New platforms were opened in 2013 for the high-speed Copenhagen–Ringsted Line, on which trains run via Køge North to Ringsted, in future at up to 250 km/h.

In addition, there is a work of art in the form of a geocentric, astronomical clock, which will show a precise picture of some of the heavenly bodies's current location above Copenhagen South.

A robotarm moves around magnetic discs representing the Sun, Moon, planets, stella nova (Tycho Brahe's supernova from 1572) and Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the center of the Milky Way.