Marienborg is a railway station located at Marienborg in Trondheim

Trondheim

Trondheim , historically, Nidaros and Trondhjem, is a city and municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. With a population of 173,486, it is the third most populous municipality and city in the country, although the fourth largest metropolitan area. It is the administrative centre of...

, 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...

. The station is located on the Dovre Line at the point where the Stavne–Leangen Line branches off from the Dovre Line. The station has two platforms, one on each of the railway lines, the one track electrified and the other not. Service to the station is provided though the commuter train service Trønderbanen

Trønderbanen

The Trøndelag Commuter Rail is a commuter train service operating in Nord-Trøndelag and Sør-Trøndelag, Norway. It is operated by Norwegian State Railways with Class 92 diesel multiple units. The service provides a commuter service connecting Trondheim to its suburbs, between towns in Innherred...

 operated by Norges Statsbaner

Norges Statsbaner

Norges Statsbaner AS, also known as the Norwegian State Railways and NSB, is a company which is responsible for most passenger train operation in Norway...

 and regional trains to Røros

Røros Station

Røros Station is a railway station located at Røros in Sør-Trøndelag, Norway on the Røros Line. It is located about from Oslo Central Station and it sits about above mean sea level. Service to the station is provided though regional trains operated by the Norwegian State Railways to Trondheim...

. It was opened in 1999.

The station is located beside St. Olavs Hospital and beside the NSB yard at Marienborg. The station had a role in the 1921 Nidareid train disaster

Nidareid train disaster

The Nidareid train disaster was a train collision on 18 September 1921 on the Trondhjem-Størenbanen railway line, between the stations of Marienborg and Skansen in Trondheim, Norway. The accident occurred the day after the inauguration of the new line to Trondheim, Dovrebanen, and one of the trains...

 since one of the trains involved was supposed to wait here but failed to do so.

External links

• Entry at the Norwegian National Rail Administration