Skotterud – Vestmarka railway line

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Skotterud – Vestmarka
Route length: 14.25 km
Gauge : 1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Operating points and routes
Legend
Route - straight ahead
 Kongsvingerbanen from Kongsvinger
Station without passenger traffic
 0.00 Skotterud (1865, earlier personal stop) 129  moh.
   
 to Charlottenberg
   
 0.32 Vrangselva (18 m)
   
 2.02 Reppshus (July 16, 1924) Needs stop
   
 3.00 Connection JB rod
   
 3.80 Børgerud (until May 15, 1929 Børrud , only Lp until July 16, 1924) 147  moh.
   
 4.30 Snesbøl (July 16, 1924, until 1928 Taugbøl ) Needs stop
   
 5.10 Taugbøl (1928) Needs stop
   
 6.59 Stangnes (until May 15, 1929 Stangness , only Lp until July 16, 1924) 158  moh.
   
 7.81 Tunnel (131 m)
   
 8.46 Rastad (July 16, 1924) Needs stop
   
 10.26 Rognlia (July 16, 1924, also Rognlien ) Needs stop
   
 10.85 Connection rod cove
   
 11.58 Buåa (until May 15, 1929 Buåen , only Lp until July 16, 1924) 141  moh.
   
 12.40 Vestmarka kirke (July 16, 1924, Vestmarken kirke until May 15, 1929 ) Needs stop
   
 14.25 Vestmarka (1918 to 1929 Vestmerken , also Kirkebakken ) 132  moh.

The Skotterud – Vestmarka (Norwegian: Vestmarkabanen or Paradisbanen ) was a railway line in Norway . It branched off from the Kongsvingerbane in Skotterud and led to Vestmarka in the municipality of Eidskog in Innlandet .

history

Vestmarkabanen was 14.3 kilometers long and opened on October 15, 1918. It was built as a private railway and only later taken over by Norges Statsbaner (NSB). The name Paradisbanen comes from a garden near Stangnes that was named Paradis . Between Stangnes and Rasta, the route led through the only railway tunnel in Sør-Hedmark.

The reason for the construction of the line was the removal of wood from the forests around Vestmarka to the main line.

With the cessation of passenger traffic on January 30, 1931, this was the first railway line in Norwegian history to lose passenger traffic. Up until the 1960s there were plans to extend the route to Mysen in Østfold . These plans never came to fruition.

The freight between BUAA and Vestmarka was maintained until 15 February 1961, the final closure of the route took place on June 1, 1965th

The remaining railway tunnel is to be prepared for a pedestrian and cycle path between Vestmarka and Skotterud.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thor Bjerke, Finn Holom: Banedata 2004 . Data from infrastructures to the railroad in Norway. Ed .: Jernbaneverket, Norsk Jernbanemuseum and Norsk Jernbaneklubb Forskningsavdelingen. NJK Forskningsavdelingen, Hamar / Oslo 2004, ISBN 82-90286-28-7 , p. 71 (Norwegian).
  2. ↑ Stasjonsdatabasen
  3. ↑ Stasjonsdatabasen
  4. ↑ Stasjonsdatabasen
  5. ↑ Stasjonsdatabasen
  6. ↑ a b c Paradisbanen. Archived from the original on December 6, 2015 ; accessed on November 28, 2018 .