Originally Posted by
MSPeconomist
It seems odd to say that Swedish law is imposing requirement on the CPH train station, which is part of Denmark, not Sweden. Surely the law imposes requirements on only trains to (and from?) Sweden, with the ID checks occurring before or at the border (or even before the first stop where passengers are discharged in Sweden), and not necessarily at CPH. The train operator has apparently decided that it will be most convenient to conduct these ID checks at CPH rather than elsewhere on Sweden-bound trains that originate in CPH or pass through CPH.
Not odd at all. The train operators don't want to be fined per actionable passenger incident of human trafficking across the bridge into Sweden. And when the train operators also don't have on-board staff (unionized?) willing and able to play the role of border control police without messing up the train schedules in a massive way, guess what happens? This kind of stuff.
They are also paying for a barrier to go up between Track 1 and Track 2 at CPH. This is to stop people from crossing the tracks in a way that would help some to circumvent the upcoming check process.