Trengereid railway station
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Bergensbanen
The Bergen Line , also called the Bergen Railway, is a standard gauge railway line between Bergen and Hønefoss, Norway. The name is often applied for the entire route from Bergen via Drammen to Oslo, where the passenger trains go, a distance of...
railway. It is located far east in Bergen
Bergen
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, Norway
Norway
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, in the Arna
Arna, Norway
Arna is a borough and suburb of Bergen, Norway and a former municipality in Hordaland county.Arna has approximately 12,000 inhabitants. Situated behind mount Ulriken, Arna is geographically close to downtown Bergen, but it takes some time to drive there by road as there is no road tunnel as of yet....
borough on the shore of the fjord Sørfjord. The station is between Takvam
Takvam Station
Takvam Station is a railway station located at Takvam in Bergen, Norway. The station is served by two daily departures per direction by the Bergen Commuter Rail operated by Norges Statsbaner. The station opened in 1966, replacing the former Herland Station....
and Bogegrend
Bogegrend Station
Bogegrend Station is a railway station located at Bogegrend in Vaksdal, Norway. The station is served by two daily departures per direction by the Bergen Commuter Rail operated by Norges Statsbaner. The station opened in 1938, and there is no road access to the station.-External links:* at the...
stations, at an altitude of 15.7 metres above sea level.
Overview
The station was opened when the Bergen-VossVoss
is a municipality in Hordaland county, Norway. It is part of the traditional district of Voss. The administrative center of the municipality is the village of Vossevangen....
railway line Vossebanen was opened in 1883.
To the south of the station, up on the mountain slope, is the small Trengereid residential neighborhood. Below the station, facing the fjord on the north are the old Trengereid factories, service buildings and docking facilities.
The station is served by all local trains running between Voss and Bergen's main railway station
Bergen Railway Station
Bergen Station is the main railway station in the city of Bergen, Norway. It is a terminal station on the Bergen Line, and serves trains from Oslo as well as the Bergen Commuter Rail from Arna, Voss and Myrdal. It is located on the east side of the city centre and has four platforms...
, but express trains do not stop here.
The track layout at Trengereid is somewhat unusual. Originally, the station had only a single track, the topography at the site, with a steep slope to the south and a body of water to the north, made it difficult to add a second track. The line eastwards went in a curve around the mountain shelf. In 1955 a second track was added at the station by building a tunnel on the east side of the station, this became the main line. The station has two platforms, but only the platform next to the tunnel, where trains can stop without blocking the single track part of the platform, is in use for embarking and disembarking. The station building was designed by Balthazar Lange.
External links
- Jernbaneverket's entry on Trengereid
- Map of station area (gulesider.no)
- MSN Map