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Norwegian Railways from Stephenson to high-speed by Roy Owen HArd Cocver
Norwegian Railways from Stephenson to high-speed by Roy Owen
Norwegian Railways from Stephenson to high-speed
Roy Owen
Hard Cover
260 Pages
Copyright 1996 First Published
Contents
Chapter
Prefacevi
Introductionvii
Glossaryxi
Passenger stock litraxii
1Building the first railway1
2N.H.J. - the opening and after9
3Carl Abraham Pihl16
4 Rorosbanen19
5 Kongsvingerbanen26
6 Dovrebanen30
7 Randsfjordbanen38
8Sorlandsbanen and branches40
9 Drammenbanen50
Oslo area53
10 Kroderbanen54
11 Ostfoldbanen59
12 Merakerbanen65
13Vestfold's railways69
Hortenlinjen71
Brevikbanen71
Private railways72
14Vossebanen and Bergensbanen73
15 Solorbanen85
16 Nesttun-Osbanen89
17 Lillesand-Flaksvandbanen95
18 Urskog-Holandsbanen97
19Gjovikbanen and its branches103
Roykenvikbanen107
Skreiabanen108
20 Nordlandsbanen111
21 Ofotbanen115
Chapter
22 Valdresbanen119
23 Thamshavnbanen124
24 Rjukanbanen131
25 Raumabanen144
26 Numesdalsbanen149
27 Namsosbanen151
28 Voss-Eidebanen
(Hardangerbana)154
29 Flamsbana157
30Gardermobanen -
200 km/hr to the airport166
31Stations and other buildings168
32Norwegian makers172
33Steam engines177
34 "Dovregubben"183
35Passenger stock188
36Motor coaches and DMUs193
37Electric motor coaches and EMUS 208
38Electric locos218
39Diesel locos228
40Invasion and occupation234
41 Signalling237
42Safety and accidents241
43"OL 94" -
the 1994 Winter Olympics244
44Road transport247
45NSB's colliers250
46Jernbanenskolen -
The Railway School252
47Jerbanemuseet -
The Railway Museum254
Unlike Britain, there was no Industrial Revolution to encourage railway builders to provide what turned out to be a surfeit of competing lines. When the idea of railways was first considered, many doubts were expressed. A comment in one newspaper stated "The conditions peculiar to Norway's land surface . . . make the extensive use of locomotive railways in this country impossible or unsuitable." The early railways were built primarily for carrying timber and this resulted in a fragmented and sometimes uncoordinated development.
Today, Norges Statsbaner (NSB) operate from the southern coast of the country, to north of the Arctic Circle. The system covers over 4,000 km (about 2,500 miles) - much of it single track - with about 775 tunnels and over 3,000 bridges. Only about a half of the track is on the level - the steepest main line gradient is 1 in 461/2 - and over three quarters of the mileage involves curves, many of them sharp. Despite these handicaps, at the beginning of the 1990s, NSB carries annually about 37 million passengers (in a country with a total population of about 4.5 million), and 20 million tonnes of goods, of which about half is iron ore on Ofotbanen into Narvik.
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