Stavne – Leangen railway line

Stavne-Leangen
Location of the route in Trondheim
Course book range :	Marienborg – Lerkendal: NSB 26
Route length:	5.8 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend Dovrebanen of Trondheim Steinbergsporet (closed in 1995) 2.82 Marienborg (1999) (Junction point, 1917–1999 letter) Dovrebanen to Stavne Dovrebanen from Heimdal Stavne bru over the Nidelva (186 m) 4.66 Lerkendal (1988) Tyholt tunnel (2760 m) Meråkerbanen from Trondheim Leangen (1892) 34 m Meråkerbanen to Hell

The Stavne – Leangen (Norw. Stavnebanen ) railway is a 5.8 km long railway line in the Norwegian city ​​of Trondheim . It branches off the Dovrebahn in Stavne on the west side of Trondheim , crosses the Nidelva and the E6 and reaches Lerkendal , the only station on the route. Then it leads through the 2.7 km long Tyholt tunnel to Leangen , where it meets the Meråkerbane towards Hell . The route is not electrified.

history

Stavnebanen from the Tyholttunnelen towards Leangen

At the request of the German Wehrmacht, Stavnebanen was built as an alternative route outside the center of Trondheim during World War II , in order to have an alternative route in the event of sabotage. Because the tunnel construction took a long time, a parallel line was built from Skansen train station through Sandgata. When the war ended, neither section was completed. The route from Sandgate and further through Olav Tryggvasons gate only reached to Søndre gate.

Further construction was postponed for a long time, the line was only put into operation on June 2, 1957. At first it was only used for freight transport. Since 1988 local trains from Steinkjer , which leave the Dovrebahn in Marienborg, have been running daily on the route to Lerkendal. Only freight trains continue to run through the Tyholttunnelen.

Diesel multiple units of the NSB 92 series (2012) from Norges Statsbaner are used for local trains . The trains run every hour, depending on the volume of traffic, one to two hours.

photos

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  Lerkendal station

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  Tyholt tunnel

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  Marienborg

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  Stavne bru

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lerkendal. In: banenor.no. Retrieved August 26, 2019 (Norwegian). 
2. ↑ Nils Carl Aspen Mountain: Glemte spor: Boken om sidebanenes tragiske live. Baneforlaget, Oslo 1994, ISBN 92-9144-800-0 , p. 299/300.
3. ↑ Picture timetable Blad 14 Trondheim S – Grong Leangen – Marienborg Hell – Storlien. Sunday 09.12.2018 - lørdag 14.12.2019. Retrieved August 26, 2019 (Norwegian). 

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