Trains and other things

Today I'm visiting 3 railways: Drammenbanen, Gjøvikbanen, and Kongsvingerbanen.

Drammen in the morning, Rc4 1175

VY is encouraging passengers to use headphones

Lier station, just outside Drammen

Lieråsen tunnel is 10.2km long, built in 1973

Flytoget is heading to Drammen

VY train to Bergen

GoAhead Nordic from Kristiansand

From 2027, the line will be operated by VY

CargoNet 5301 from Alnabru to Sundland Verksted

187 411

A short freight train and a short line

BM 78 is the new CAF Oaris for Flytoget

Shortly I will switch to Gjøvikbanen, but first a coffee in Oslo

BM73 from VY for the services at Østfoldbanen

Northeast bound from Oslo - passing through some older blocks

Passing by Sandermosen station on the Gjøvikbanen. The station is closed since 2006, but I will shortly visit it anyway

The first stop after Kjelsås is Snippen. Not all trains stop here, but this one does

There isn't much here in Snippen, so there aren't many passengers. On the other hand, Norwegians love nature, and this station is perfect for a walk, and it's very close to Oslo

There is a 30 minutes walk to Sandermosen

Blue berries

Here it is

Even though there is no official stop here, many trains do stop here for the crossing

Here is a CargoNet to Bergen. Some of the trains use this line regularly.

Last year, this line was very busy due to railworks at Drammen. All freight to Bergen and Stavanger was running here

I'm on my way back to Snippen, and shortly taking a train to Lillestrøm

A short stop in Lillestrøm

Now I'm on Kongsvingerbanen; here is Rånåsfoss station

Is it a phone booth?

Nope, it's a library

Rånåsfoss bridge

When it first opened in 1927, it was Norway's longest suspension bridge, holding that title until 1937. It represents an early, cost-effective Norwegian engineering technique for building long-span bridges across wide rivers in rural areas with low traffic volumes.

Rånåsfoss power station is a hydroelectric power plant at Rånåsfoss in Nes municipality in Akershus county and uses the fall of Rånåsfossen in the Glomma watercourse.

Thorvald Astrup designed the plant, and it was built between 1917 and 1922 under the leadership of Augustin Thoresen Paus, who became the first director of Akershus Electricity Company (now Akershus Energi) in 1922.

The Rånåsfoss power plant was one of the largest and most modern for its time, and with its monumental buildings and innovative technological features, is one of the most important cultural monuments in Norwegian power production. (Wikipedia)

Blaker

Årnes

Kongsvingerbanen has services to/from Sweden

Norway is preparing for the World Cup

Skarnes

Class 75 is operating the line to Kongsvinger

The old bridge in Skarnes

And now it's time for all the freight trains on the line

187 411 on the way to Sweden

A bit unusual monument

The liquor store Vinmonopolet has a shop in Skarnes

185 709

Taking the train to Sørumsand

Sørumsand

OnRail train to Sweden and further to Narvik

The Urskog–Høland Line (Norwegian: Urskog–Hølandsbanen), also known as Tertitten, is a narrow-gauge railway between Sørumsand and Skulerud in Norway.

The original line was 57 km long and was built in three stages: Urskogbanen opened in 1896, running from Bingsfossen to Bjørkelangen; Hølandsbanen from Bjørkelangen to Skulerud opened in 1898; and finally, the line between Bingsfossen and Sørumsand opened in 1903. Today, part of the line is preserved as a museum at Sørumsand in Lillestrøm kommune. The railway company was headquartered at Bjørkelangen. The line was built in the least expensive way as a so-called tertiary railway with a 750 mm (2 ft 5+1⁄2 in) gauge track. This gave the line its diminutive, affectionate nickname, "Tertitten". The railway operated as a privately owned joint-stock company until 1945, when the government bought it and the Norwegian State Railways (NSB) ran it as Aurskog-Hølandbanen. (Wikipedia)