Bergerlinna

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Dal – Berger Bruk
Route length:	about 6 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend Hovedbanen of Eidsvoll Dal 60.25 °  N , 11.2 °  E Hovedbanen to Oslo S Berger Bruk 60.27 °  N , 11.12 °  E

Bergerlinna is the name of the railway line that led from the Norwegian train station Dal in Fylke Viken to Berger Bruk on Hurdalssjøen . The route was only used for freight traffic .

history

Since 1703, the Mathiesen Linnerud wood company from Groruddalen had secured large forest areas in Hurdal . For many years, wood was rafted from the forests across the Hurdalsjøen to the Rustad sawmill. The boards sawn in Rustad were transported to Christiania by horse-drawn carriage or sleigh .

When Chamberlain Haaken Lampert Mathiesen took over Berger Bruk, which consisted of a sawmill and a glassworks, in 1852, he saw the possibility of transporting all wood goods that were to be traded in Christiania more effectively with a siding to the main line. The goods from Berger Bruk, the first steam sawmill in the region, provided the largest share of goods traffic with the transport of wood to Dal from the opening of the route.

The construction of the line was completed with the opening of the Hovedbane between Christiania and Eidsvoll on September 1, 1854. The route was operated by horses. As with the main line, the rails were laid on longitudinal beams. While these longitudinal beams were replaced on the main line in the 1860s, they remained in use on the Bergerlinna until the line was closed in 1895. Since the line was built in the same way as the Hovedbane, it can be assumed that the track width was 1435 mm as with the main line. However, there is no evidence of this in the sources.

The sawmill and glassworks were later shut down and demolished, the areas are overgrown.

Routing

Remnants of the route are still there today. Remnants of the logs on which the tracks were laid can be found in some sections of the route.

Most of it has been preserved as a hiking trail from Berger to the southeast through the woods. To the west of the station Dal tracks have been cut by the E6 and new residential areas or destroyed from the roundabout at the junction Risebruvegen and Sessvollvegen the former railway embankment goes east toward the E 6 . The former route leads through a forest with cultivated land in the south and some residential areas on both sides. The recognizable former track position ends where it is intersected by the E6. To the east of the E 6, the route again leads through a residential area. The first part is about 150 meters long on a forest road through a pine forest before it is interrupted by a road and a residential building. It was built over on the new line, the eastern parts of the site are well preserved. In the direction further east, the route is difficult to see and ends at a residential building.

The remains of the railway line are classified as cultural monuments.

Web links

• Bergerlinna. Jernbaneminne (229218-1). In: jernbane.net. Retrieved December 2, 2018 (Norwegian). 
• Hest and tralle are burdened with plank on Bergerlinja mellom Dal stasjon on Hovedbanen and Berger Bruk ved Hurdalsjøen. In: digitaltmuseum.no. November 27, 2018, accessed December 2, 2018 (Norwegian). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Terje Karlsson: Hestejernbane med trelast til Dal. In: Romerikes Blad. August 26, 2004, accessed December 2, 2018 (Norwegian). 
2. ↑ Bergerlinna. In: kulturminnesok.no. Retrieved December 2, 2018 (Norwegian).