Flåm Station
Flåm Station Flåm stasjon | |||||
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| General information | |||||
| Location | Flåm, Aurland Municipality Norway | ||||
| Coordinates | 60°51′46″N 7°06′49″E / 60.86282°N 7.11369°E | ||||
| Elevation | 2 m (6 ft 7 in) | ||||
| System | Railway station | ||||
| Owned by | Bane NOR | ||||
| Operated by | Flåm Utvikling (Vy) | ||||
| Line | Flåmsbanen | ||||
| Distance | 356.00 km (221.21 mi) | ||||
| Other information | |||||
| Station code | IATA code: XGH | ||||
| History | |||||
| Opened | 1 August 1940 | ||||
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Flåm Station (Norwegian: Flåm stasjon) is a railway station located at the village of Flåm in Aurland Municipality, Norway. The station marks the terminus for the Flåm Line (Flåmsbana). The station is served by the tourist trains on the Flåm Line and operated by Vy as a subcontractor for Flåm Utvikling.[1]
History
The station opened on 1 August 1940 for freight, and the year after for passenger traffic. The station was built to allow transfer from ferries operating on Sognefjord to the Bergen Line at Myrdal Station. Marketing of the service was transferred to Flåm Utvikling in 1998; after this a new station building was opened, and the old station building converted to a railway museum. [2]
Flåm is one of Norway's largest tourist attractions, with an estimated half a million visitors annually. The Flåm Railway Documentation Centre provides information into the building of the Flåm Railway and the technical challenge facing this engineering work through the use of different exhibitions with text, image and sound.[3][4]
References
- ^ Thorsnæs, Geir; Wisting, Tor; Aspenberg, Nils Carl, eds. (2025-06-19). "Flåmsbana". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Foreningen Store norske leksikon. Retrieved 2025-11-22.
- ^ "Flåm Utvikling AS". Aurland kommune. Retrieved 2017-12-01.
- ^ "The Flåm Railway Documentation Centre". Flamsbana Museet. Archived from the original on 2011-07-24. Retrieved 2017-12-01.
- ^ "The Flåm Railway Museum". visitflam.com. Retrieved 2017-12-01.
External links
- Entry at the Norwegian National Rail Administration (in Norwegian)
| Preceding station | Following station | |||
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| Terminus | Flåm Line | Lunden | ||