Nordlandsbanen

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Trondheim – Bodø
A Bombardier talent driving through the Saltfjell
Course book range :	Trondheim – Bodø: NSB 71
Route length:	729 km
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Legend 728.75 Bodø (1961) to Dreyfushammaren 720.72 Mørkved (1987) 719.38 Støver (1962) Olderhaugen (approx. 300 m) Vikfjellet (approx. 900 m) Åsen (approx. 350 m) 710.75 Tverrlandet (1961, formerly station) Tuva (approx. 550 m) 704.00 Oteråga (1962, formerly P.-Halt) Blåbergan (approx. 600 m) Laukåsstraumen 685.62 Valnesfjord (2001) Sommarsetlia (approx. 2,000 m) Kleivtoppen (approx. 300 m) Polar Banen to Narvik (construction canceled) 674.23 Fauske (1958) Finneid (approx. 550 m) Sulitjelmabanen Finneid (1956) Fining traumas Straumnakken (approx. 400 m) Høggrytja (approx. 550 m) Tuva (approx. 1,400 m) Langrudodden (approx. 1,300 m) Jubbeneset (approx. 300 m) Skruhammaren (approx. 1,100 m) 660.12 Setså (1958) Nonshøgda (approx. 1,000 m) Stamnes (approx. 350 m) Kjenesnakken (approx. 800 m) Saltnes (approx. 500 m) Saltelva (168 m) 647.76 Rognan (1958) Siding 634.44 Røkland (1955) 627.00 Rusåga (1955) Russåneslia (approx. 300 m) 621.45 Trettnes (1955) Varghola (approx. 300 m) 610.80 Kjemåga (1955) End of the route 1947–1955 602.15 Lønsdal (1947) E6 592.42 Semska (1947) E6 - highest point on the route 680 m 581.46 Stødi (1947) 579.30 Polarsirkelen ( Arctic Circle ) Summer (1993-2004) 571.09 Bolna (1947, formerly P.-Halt) Raudberget (333 m) 561.83 Krokstrand (1947) Raufjellfossen bru (180 m) Hjartåsen (328 m) 552.17 Hjartåsen (1947) 543.05 Dunderland (1945) (approx. 300 m) Rana pit tunnel loading system 66.41 °  N , 14.71 °  O Ranelva (bridge since 1983, 260 m) 66.41 °  N , 14.71 °  O Brannflata malmstasjon 66.4 °  N , 14.71 °  O 535.49 Ørtfjell (1945-1959) 534.63 Abzw. Ørtfjell (1983) 66.4 °  N , 14.7 °  O Stupforsen (400 m) 66.39 °  N , 14.65 °  O 527.35 Grønfjelldal (1942-1974) 66.38 °  N , 14.63 °  O Grønfjellåga 66.37 °  N , 14.59 °  O Storforsen (350 m) 66.4 °  N , 14.51 °  E (Start of Dunderlandsbanen) Storforshei pit tunnel loading system 66.4 °  N , 14.51 °  E Ranelva 66.4 °  N , 14.51 °  E Storforshei junction 522.88 Storforshei (1942) 66.4 °  N , 14.51 °  E Småneslitunnel (198 m) 66.4 °  N , 14.45 °  O Gomeatunnel (156 m) 66.4 °  N , 14.44 °  O Illhulliatunnel (1700 m) 66.39 °  N , 14.4 °  O 512.65 Skonseng (1942) 66.36 °  N , 14.35 °  O Kalvhaugentunnel (125 m) 66.35 °  N , 14.35 °  O Pure Fosse tunnel (616 m) 66.34 °  N , 14.34 °  O Trolldalen tunnel (174 m) 66.34 °  N , 14.33 °  O 506.51 Mjølalia (1942) 66.34 °  N , 14.31 °  O Tverråga (about 60 m) 66.32 °  N , 14.18 °  O Tverrånes (end of Dunderlandsbanen) 500.85 Gullsmedvik (1942) to Mellomvika 497.98 Mo i Rana (1942) to the industrial park Mon 485.77 Dalselv (1942) Dalselva (41 m) Granåsen (approx. 500 m) (approx. 350 m) 473.05 Finneidfjord (1942) 468.68 Bjerka (1942) Røssåga bru (124 m) 464.85 Røsså (1942) Mulklubben (approx. 450 m) Matesfjellet (approx. 700 m) 458.82 Selhornvik (1942) Hattneset (approx. 1600 m) Hattholten (approx. 700 m) Bordvedneset (approx. 450 m) Seljelia (approx. 350 m) Gammallia (approx. 400 m) 447.61 Elsfjord (1941) Falkmoen (approx. 750 m) 440.77 Drevvatn (1941) Haugen (approx. 300 m) 432.03 Toven (1941) 425.21 Drevja (1941) 423.31 Forsmo (1946) Tømmerremma (approx. 550 m) 419.49 Holandsvika (1941) Rv. 78 414.62 Søfting (1941–1989) Fusta bru (41 m) Åsmulen (approx. 1 050 m) 406.01 Mosjøen (1940) Vefsna 393.78 Kvalfors (1940) Klubbåsen (approx. 300 m) 388.93 Eiterstraum (1940-2005 person stop ) Høgåsen (approx. 500 m) 378.63 Laksfors (1940) Trolldalen Viaduct (175 m) 367.24 Trofors (1940) (approx. 700 m) Langvassåsen (approx. 450 m) 354.49 Svenningdal (1940) Svenningdalselva (approx. 300 m) 339.37 Holmvassås Bp (1940, formerly Pers.-Halt) 331.69 Sefrivatn (1940) to the Sefrivatn gravel works Sefrivatn (232 m) 321.74 Majavatn (1940) 313.04 Smalåsen (1940) Names 302.57 Bjørnstad (1940) Mellingen Bp 290.25 Namsskogan (1940) Brannan (approx. 550 m) 277.27 Brekkvasselv (1940) 266.05 Flåtådal (1940) Lindmoen Bp Names 254.64 Lassemoen (1940) 243.68 Aunfoss (1940) 235.79 Harran (1940) Gløshaugen (approx. 1 050 m) 228.66 Gartland (1940) Names Husfjellet (approx. 2,600 m) End of the route 1929–1940 219.54 Grong (1929) to Namsos 212.72 Formofoss (1929) Sanddøla (approx. 350 m) 199.06 Lurudal Bp (1929) 194.66 Myrset (1929) 190.72 Agle (1929, formerly P.-Halt) Bergsåsen (approx. 450 m) 181.64 Snåsa (1926) Svarva (268 m) Grana Bru (114 m) 173.57 Jørstad (1926) Jørstadelva bru (30 m) 170.07 Rigid Grass Myra (1984) 162.87 Strindmoen (1941) Heggesbekk (-1972) 154.10 Valøy (1926) Tiltnes (-1987) 144.50 Stod (1926, formerly P.-Halt) Sundet bru (48 m) End of the line 1905–1926 136.66 Sunnan (1905) 133.17 Fossemvatnet (1909–1972) 130.34 Byafossen (1905) to Nordsidleiret Steinkjerelva bru (96 m) 125.50 Steinkjer (1905) to the port of Sørsidleiret Figgaelva bru (46 m) 118.76 Vist (1905-1990) 114.84 Mære (1917, earlier personal stop) 112.93 Sparbu (1905) Vollan (-1990) Lunnan (385 m) 105.47 Røra (1905) Koabjørgen (103 m) Bjørga Fleskhus 96.23 Verdal (1904) Verdalselva bru (210 m) to the port of Verdal 93.70 Bergsgrav (1977) 91.63 Rinnan (1904) Østborg (formerly Pers.-Halt) 85.18 Røstad (HiNT) 84.54 Elberg (1968) Levangerelva bru (27 m) 83.90 Levanger (1902) 83.30 Levanger Sykehus (1995-2010) E6 Harrows (1938) 76.01 Skogn (1902) after fiber rods 69.65 Ronglan (1902) 64.83 Hammerberg (1939) 61.40 Åsen (1902) 57.43 Vudu (1950, formerly Pers.-Halt) 50.55 Langstein (1902, formerly Pers.-Halt) hammer 44.94 Alstad (1902-1993) Alstad (-1972) 41.90 Skatval Vold 34.67 Stjørdal (1902) to the industrial area E14 Værnes runway (155 m) Værnes taxiway (approx. 45 m) Værnes (since 1994, Trondheim Lufthavn Værnes ) Sandferhus (-1989) Stjørdalselva bru (149 m) Meråkerbanen 31.54 Light (1881) Muruvika (port) Muruvik (until 2011 station) 63.43 °  N , 10.83 °  E Gevingåsen tunnel (4,400 meters, since 2011) 63.43 °  N , 10.83 °  E Homla 79 23.14 Hommelvik (1881) 7.5 m Midtsanden 63.43 °  N , 10.73 °  O 90 12.69 Vikhammar (1883-1985, from about 1998, 63.44 °  N , 10.62 °  O ) 4.7 m Ranheim Ab and paper mill Presthus 96 Charlottenlund 24 m 97 4.31 Red full 98 3.49 Leangen (1892) 63.44 °  N , 10.46 °  O 34 m Stavnebanen to Marienborg 99 Ladalen 99.5 1.77 Lilleby (1967 to 2006 Lademoen ) 100 0.94 Lademoen (station until 1997, Hp since 2007) 6 m Nidelva ( bascule bridge ) 102 0.00 Trondheim S (1881) Dovre Railway to Oslo

The part of the Norwegian railway network that connects Trondheim and Bodø is called Nordlandsbanen ( German  Nordlandbahn ) .

Geographical location

It is the only railway line in Norway that crosses the Arctic Circle . The Ofotbane to Narvik is further north, but the Arctic Circle is already crossed by the Malmbana on the Swedish side . The travel time over the entire route is between 9:35 and 10:30.

history

The first part of Trondheim– Hell (on to Sweden) was completed in 1881 with the Meråkerbane . As a planner for the Nordlandsbane, Ole Tobias Olsen developed the idea in 1881/1882 to take it to Røsvik and then via northern Sweden , Finland and St. Petersburg to Beijing .

Hell – Sunnanbanen

The continuation to Sunnan was completed in 1905. From 1905 to 1926 Sunnan was the terminus of the later Nordlandsbane.

→ Main article : Hell – Sunnanbanen

Further construction to Grong and Mosjøen

Grong was reached in 1929. In 1933 a branch line from Grong to Namsos , the Namsosbane , was opened. Before the German invasion of Norway , the Nordlandsbane reached Mosjøen in 1940 .

Further construction to Dunderland

During the Second World War , the construction of the line was continued under German leadership, with prisoners of war from Eastern Europe being used as slave labor for building railways and roads (see Blood Route ). The line reached Dunderland by the end of the war in 1945 . In 1942, a private mine railway, the Dunderlandsbane , operated on the route between Tverrånes and Storforshei , was confiscated and integrated into the Nordlandsbane. The Germans planned a railway as a polar orbit to Kirkenes and started construction from Fauske north to the village of Drag in Tysfjord municipality . The construction work stopped with the liberation of Norway in 1945.

completion

The section to Fauske was opened in 1958 and the entire line to Bodø on June 7, 1962. For a continuation of the Nordlandsbane further north, plans were drawn up for a so-called Nord-Norgebane (German: Northern Norway Railway), which began in the early 1990s were put on hold by Storting .

On the instructions of Statens jernbanetilsyn , the Levanger sykehus stop was closed on December 11, 2010 despite a frequency of around 80 to 90,000 passengers per year. The reason for the closure was that the stop is in a curve and, at 600 meters, is too close to the train station in Levanger. For this purpose, an illuminated footpath was built from the Levanger train station to the closed stop and the parking lot that was created there when it opened.

Infrastructure

The route is 729 kilometers long, making it the longest railway line in Norway. It is single-track and not electrified . It is to be equipped with ETCS Level 2 between 2019 and 2021 .

vehicles

On the track two-piece run diesel railcars the type NSB 93 and with diesel -covered car trains (u. A. Night trains ). The train takes around ten hours for the one-way route from Bodø to Trondheim. Two pairs of trains run daily (one at night and one during the day) over the entire route.

In 2020, SJ Norge AS will operate all passenger transport under the brand name "NORD".

Worth knowing

A special feature worth mentioning is the hunting rifle , which used to be carried on trains in order to be able to quickly rescue injured animals in the event of a game accident. Tightening of the gun laws resulted in a creeping end to this practice, which led to criticism from animal welfare. Despite the fencing of the route and occasional evacuation by helicopter before a train ride, the cleared route attracts numerous reindeer and elk as a comfortable route when there is heavy snow . Between 1985 and 2017, almost 7,400 animals were run over on the route.

literature

• Difficult traction on the Nordlandbahn . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International , issue 11/2004, ISSN  1421-2811 , p. 522 f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Timetable 71. Tog i Norge, archived from the original on August 12, 2013 ; Retrieved May 5, 2019 (Norwegian). 
2. ↑ Røstad (hint). In: banenor.no. Retrieved May 5, 2019 (Norwegian). 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Snart slutt for popular holdeplass. NRK Trøndelag, November 12, 2010, accessed November 16, 2013 (Norwegian). 
4. ↑ In Norwegian , the ending "-en" for nouns is a definite article . Therefore, the correct designation in German texts is either "Nordlandsbanen" or "die Nordlandsbane".
5. ↑ Odd Birger Grønli: Hell-Sunnan 100 år. Steinkjer-Avisa, November 11, 2005, archived from the original on July 20, 2010 ; accessed on January 14, 2014 . 
6. ↑ ETCS pilot goes live . In: Railway Gazette International . tape 171 , no. 10 , 2015, ISSN  0373-5346 , p. 7 ( online under a similar title ).
7. ↑ Andreas Budalen, Ole Marius Rørstad, Gisle Forland: Krever våpen ombord på togene - NRK Nordland - Local nyheter, TV og radio. In: NRK.no. June 6, 2014, accessed November 30, 2018 (Norwegian). 
8. ↑ Susanne Lysvold: Døden på skinnene - Nordland. In: NRK.no. March 28, 2016, accessed November 30, 2018 (Norwegian). 
9. ↑ jst: Longer travel times on the Nordland Railway due to wildlife . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International 2/2018, p. 92.

Web links

Commons : Nordlandsbanen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Trondheim – Bodø line at Jernbaneverket.no (norw.)
• Trondheim – Steinkjer line at Jernbaneverket.no (norw.)
• Driver's cab ride Trondheim – Bodø
• Network plan. jernbaneverket.no, January 1, 2016, accessed June 17, 2016 (Norwegian).