Gamle Vossebanen

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The station building of the museum railway in Garnes
Museum locomotive NSB Type 18, No. 255

The Gamle Vossebane ( Norwegian for: the old Vossbahn ) is a museum railway near Bergen in Norway . It leads from Midtun via Arna to Garnes.

history

The railway line was licensed by the Norwegian Storting on June 9, 1865 under the name Vossebanen and completed on May 20, 1883 in narrow gauge 1067 mm. On July 22, 1883, passenger traffic from Bergen's old train station to Voss began. Five tunnels had to be blasted between Helldal and Haukeland. The longest - Brattland tunnel - was 258 m.

When the Storting decided in 1894 and 1896 to build the Bergenbane , the Vossebane had to be converted to its planned standard gauge and on August 11, 1904, the first section of the Bergen Railway was ready for operation. It was the first CAP gauge line in Norway to be converted to standard gauge. On December 27, 1909, the Bergen Railway could be operated continuously from Oslo to Bergen. With the new importance, the traffic grew, so that the old train station west of the inland lake Lille Lungegårdsvannet should have been enlarged. But only in the east of the lake Store Lungegårdsvannet was there enough building land so that Bergen received a new train station, which was inaugurated on May 26, 1913 and connected with a new line through a tunnel under the Haukeland. Due to the sustained heavy traffic (around 1900 around 500,000 travelers were transported between Bergen and Nesttun annually , around a million during World War I ) the line was electrified on July 2, 1954.

The Gamle Vossebane was set up on the section of the Bergen Railway, which was no longer used in 1964 after the construction of the 7.8 km long Ulrik tunnel through the Ulriken by the Norges Statsbaner . Freight traffic was still partially carried out until 2001, since then the section to Midttun has only been used by the museum trains that first ran in 1993. There is a track connection with today's Bergen Railway in Arna . The route runs along the Sørfjord opposite the island of Osterøy .

The name "Gamle Vossebanen" originated from the history of the Bergen Railway. Operator of the museum railway is Norsk Jernbaneklubb (NJB), long on the 18 km route between yarn and Midttun regularly in the summer museum trains operate. A steam locomotive of the Norwegian class 18c , which was built in 1913 by the Hamar Jernstøberi company in Hamar , is used. The fleet consists of older passenger cars with teak cladding, which were typical for the Norwegian railways until the 1980s.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In Norwegian , the ending "-en" for nouns is a definite article . Therefore, the correct designation in German texts is either “Vossebanen” or “die Vossebane”.
  2. ↑ Nils Carl Aspen Mountain: Glemte Spor . 1994, ISBN 82-91448-00-0 , pp. 232ff.
  3. ^ The Old Voss Railway (Gamle Vossebanen). (accessed June 16, 2011)

Web links

Commons : Gamle Vossebanen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files