[2][3] The station offers direct Intercity rail services to Funen, Jutland and Copenhagen, as well as regional rail services to Copenhagen, Odense and Næstved, all operated by the national railway company DSB.

[1] Ringsted railway station opened on 27 April 1856, as the Copenhagen–Roskilde railway line from Copenhagen to Roskilde, the first railway line in the Kingdom of Denmark,[a] was prolonged from Roskilde to the port city of Korsør on the west coast of Zealand by the Great Belt in 1856.

[6] The second and present station building from 1925 was designed by the Danish architect Knud Tanggaard Seest who was the head architect of the Danish State Railways from 1922 to 1949.

[3] Ringsted railway station is used as a location in the 1942 Danish comedy film Frk.

Vildkat Ut is also used as a location in an episode of DR television series Rejseholdet.