Klepp stasjon is a village in the municipality

Municipalities of Norway

Norway is divided into 19 administrative regions, called counties , and 430 municipalities...

 of Klepp

Klepp

Klepp is a municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. The parish of Klep was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 ....

, located in the county

Counties of Norway

Norway is divided into 19 administrative regions, called counties . The counties form the primary first-level subdivisions of Norway and are further divided into 430 municipalities...

 of Rogaland

Rogaland

is a county in Western Norway, bordering Hordaland, Telemark, Aust-Agder and Vest-Agder. It is the center of the Norwegian petroleum industry, and as a result of this, Rogaland has the lowest unemployment rate of any county in Norway, 1.1%...

, Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

. It is located by lake Frøylandsvatnet

Frøylandsvatnet

Frøylandsvatnet is a lake located in the district of Jæren in Norway. It forms part of the division line between the municipalities of Klepp and Time. The origin of the name is from the Norse god Frey...

.

When the Jærbanen

Jærbanen

The Jæren Line long railway line between Stavanger and Egersund, in Jæren, Norway. The line is officially the western-most part of the Sørland Line. Owned by the Norwegian National Rail Administration, the line has double track from Stavanger Station to Sandnes Station, and single track from...

 railway was constructed in 1878, the administrative centre of Klepp (Kleppe

Kleppe

Kleppe is a village in, and the administrative centre of, the municipality of Klepp, in the county of Rogaland, Norway.Kleppe, an abbreviated form of its former name Kleppekrossen, is in the centre of the municipality. The population around Kleppe is growing rapidly, mostly in the form of suburban...

) was somewhat offset from the convenient path of the railway, so the railway station serving Klepp was placed 3 km east of the centre. The village of Klepp stasjon (literally Klepp station) grew up around the railway station.