Ål Station is a railway station located at Ål

Ål

Ål is a municipality in Buskerud county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Hallingdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Ål....

, 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 served by up to six daily express trains operated by Norwegian State Railways. The station was opened as part of the Bergen Line between Bergen

Bergen

Bergen is the second largest city in Norway with a population of as of , . Bergen is the administrative centre of Hordaland county. Greater Bergen or Bergen Metropolitan Area as defined by Statistics Norway, has a population of as of , ....

 and Gulsvik

Gulsvik

Gulsvik is a village in Flå, Buskerud, Norway. The name Gulsvik is connected to the original farm of Gulsvik. The Gulsvik farm was known from the middle ages, when the owners were among the most prominent people in lower Hallingdal. Gulsvik is reckoned to be an old Norwegian folkland, which never...

 in 1907.

On 1 November 1930, the restaurant was taken over by Norsk Spisevognselskap

Norsk Spisevognselskap

Norsk Spisevognselskap A/S, often abbreviated NSS or shortened to Spisevognselskapet, was a Norwegian state enterprise which operated restaurant carriages on Norwegian trains and restaurants at train stations and railway hotels. The company was established in December 1918, and started a catering...

. In 1948, they erected a separate restaurant building at the station.

External links

• Jernbaneverket's page on Gol