Notodden Station also known as Notodden Public Transport Terminal is a railway station

Train station

A train station, also called a railroad station or railway station and often shortened to just station,"Station" is commonly understood to mean "train station" unless otherwise qualified. This is evident from dictionary entries e.g...

 serving Notodden

Notodden

is a town and municipality in Telemark county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Øst-Telemark. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Notodden....

, 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 the terminal station

Train station

A train station, also called a railroad station or railway station and often shortened to just station,"Station" is commonly understood to mean "train station" unless otherwise qualified. This is evident from dictionary entries e.g...

 of Bratsbergbanen and was opened in 2004. The station has only one track and one platform, and is served by hourly trains to Grenland

Grenland

Grenland is a traditional district in the county of Telemark, in the south of Norway. It is composed of the municipalities Skien, Porsgrunn, Bamble, Nome, and Siljan. Sometimes the municipalities Kragerø, and Drangedal are considered being part of the area...

 by Norges Statsbaner on contract with Vestviken Kollektivtrafikk

Vestviken Kollektivtrafikk

Vestviken Kollektivtrafikk is the public transport administration for the counties of Buskerud, Telemark and Vestfold in Norway. VTK is responsible for planning, organising and marketing bus transport in the three counties, but does not operate any buses...

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History

Notodden Old Station

Notodden Old Station

Notodden Old Station was the railway station serving Notodden, Norway from 1909 to 1919. The station was designed by Thorvald Astrup as the terminal station of Tinnosbanen. When Notodden was connected with Bratsbergbanen in 1919, Notodden New Station was built, and the old station fell into...

 was the first station to serve Notodden, and was taken into use when Tinnosbanen opened in 1909. When the extension line of Bratsbergbanen was opened in 1917 Notodden New Station

Notodden New Station

Notodden New Station was the railway station serving Notodden, Norway from 1919 to 2004. The station was designed by Gudmund Hoel, finished in 1917 and taken into use two years later when Bratsbergbanen opened....

 was taken into use. After operations on Tinnosbanen were terminated in 1991, plans to move the station closer to town were made, and in 2004 the new public transport terminal was taken into use. This station is 800 meters closer to town than the old one, but the final stretch is not electrified

Railway electrification system

A railway electrification system supplies electrical energy to railway locomotives and multiple units as well as trams so that they can operate without having an on-board prime mover. There are several different electrification systems in use throughout the world...

 like the rest of Bratsberg- and Tinnosbanen.