Vestfoldbanen

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Drammen – Skien
Sande train station
Sande train station
Course book range : Lillehammer – Skien: NSB 20
Route length: 148 km
Gauge : up to 1949: 1067 mm
1435 mm
Power system : 15 kV 16 Hz  ~
Dual track : Kobbervik – Nykirke
Larvik – Porsgrunn
Operating points and routes
Route - straight ahead
Drammenbanen from Oslo Sentralstasjon
Station, station
52.86 Drammen (1866) 2.2  moh.
   
Randsfjordbanen
   
54.70 Danvik (Sept. 7, 1936– May 31, 1970)
   
56.82 Fjellsbyen (1930–31 May 1970)
   
59.77 Gunnerud (Sept. 14, 1928– Oct. 7, 1945)
A / D: transfer point, CH: lane change
60.98 Kobbervik (2001)
   
61.50 Gunnarsrud (June 29, 1883–1921 as Gundesø, until May 28, 1978) 80  moh.
Blockstelle, Awanst, Anst etc.
63.05 Skoger (until 1894 Skouger , station: 7 Dec. 1881–5 Oct 2001) 75  moh.
   
68.63 Galleberg (1881)
Station, station
73.07 Sande (new line 2001, old line 1881)
   
77.01 Holm (1884)
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76.75 End of the double track by 2016
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New line since 2016
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Holmestrandsporten (approx.12,300 m)
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Øgarden (1928)
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81.28 Smørstein (1921)
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Smørstein (255 m)
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Husdalen (1929)
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Tvillingbru (1935)
BSicon .svgBSicon tSTR.svgBSicon DST.svg
86.09 Holmestrand (1881) 4.8  moh.
BSicon .svgBSicon tBHF.svgBSicon STR.svg
Holmestrand (new)
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Holmestrand – Vittingfossbanen
BSicon .svgBSicon tSTR.svgBSicon eHST.svg
Gausen (1929)
BSicon .svgBSicon tSTRe.svgBSicon eHST.svg
Snekkestad (1928)
BSicon .svgBSicon ABZg + l.svgBSicon xABZgr.svg
BSicon .svgBSicon tSTRa.svgBSicon exSTR.svg
BSicon .svgBSicon tDST.svgBSicon exSTR.svg
92.57 Nykirke krysningsspor (about 150 m)
BSicon .svgBSicon tSTRe.svgBSicon exSTR.svg
BSicon .svgBSicon eABZg + l.svgBSicon exSTRr.svg
   
95.26 Nykirke (1881)
Route - straight ahead
End of the double track from 2016
   
Skoppum – Horten railway line
Station, station
99.54 Skoppum (1881)
   
102.97 Adal (1881)
A / D: transfer point, CH: lane change
108.42 Barkåker (1881)
   
111.74 Tomsbakken (1931)
   
Drammen-Skiensbanen to Jarlsberg points
   
Tønsberg – Eidsfossbanen to Stensarmen
Station, station
115.55 Tønsberg (Knapløkken) (1881)
   
Tønsberg – Eidsfossbanen to Tønsberg gamle stasjon
   
Drammen ski slopes from Tomsbakken
   
117.80 Jarlsberg points (1901)
   
Tønsberg – Eidsfossbanen
   
120.26 Auli (1932)
   
121.03 Sem (1881)
   
124.21 Vølen (1929)
   
125.27 Grytingen (1928)
   
126.96 Grimestad (1929)
Station, station
128.24 Stokke (1881)
   
129.84 Kile Bru (1929)
   
132.17 Stavnum (1928)
   
133.31 Do (1929)
   
134.97 Råstad (1881)
Stop, stop
135.10 Torp (Sandefjord lufthavn) (2008)
   
136.69 Unneberg (1928)
   
137.56 Gokstad (1929)
   
138.45 Hosle (1929)
Station, station
139.52 Sandefjord (1881)
   
141.00 Virrik (1930)
   
142.33 Skiringssal (1928)
   
143.27 Bærløkka (1929)
   
144.71 Jåberg (1881)
   
146.52 Hybbestad (1929)
   
147.33 Skalberg (1928)
A / D: transfer point, CH: lane change
149.80 Lauve (1881)
   
151.17 Vikvegen (1929)
   
151.97 Viksfjord (1904)
   
153.23 Guri (1929)
   
154.25 Kaupang (1928)
   
155.09 Grøtting (1885)
   
156.12 Skreppestad (1929)
   
Numedalslågen
   
156.86 Lågen (1929)
   
Revet sidespor
Station, station
158.66 Larvik (1881) 1.7  moh.
   
Farriselva (102 m)
BSicon exSTR + l.svgBSicon edABZgr.svgBSicon .svg
BSicon exENDEe.svgBSicon dSTR.svgBSicon .svg
Farris sidespor
BSicon .svgBSicon xABZgl.svgBSicon STR + r.svg
New Farriseidet – Porsgrunn line from Sept. 24, 2018
BSicon .svgBSicon exTUNNEL1.svgBSicon STR.svg
Vassvik (about 330.5 m)
BSicon .svgBSicon exSTR.svgBSicon TUNNEL1.svg
Martineåsen tunnel (3,670 m)
BSicon .svgBSicon exSTR.svgBSicon hKRZWae.svg
Paulertjønn (345 m)
BSicon .svgBSicon exhKRZWae.svgBSicon STR.svg
Farriselva (around 17.5 m, oldest railway bridge in the Norwegian network)
BSicon .svgBSicon exSTR.svgBSicon hKRZWae.svg
Vassbotn (438 m)
BSicon .svgBSicon exTUNNEL1.svgBSicon STR.svg
Skautvedt (about 190 m)
BSicon .svgBSicon exTUNNEL2.svgBSicon STR.svg
Tunnel (about 22 m)
BSicon .svgBSicon exSTR.svgBSicon TUNNEL2.svg
Tjønnemyr viltovergang (? M)
BSicon .svgBSicon exSTR.svgBSicon TUNNEL2.svg
Askeklova tunnel (110 m)
BSicon .svgBSicon exSTR.svgBSicon TUNNEL2.svg
Hovås tunnel (170 m)
BSicon .svgBSicon exSTR.svgBSicon hKRZWae.svg
Solumelva (197 m)
BSicon .svgBSicon exTUNNEL2.svgBSicon STR.svg
Tunnel (about 34 m)
BSicon .svgBSicon exTUNNEL1.svgBSicon STR.svg
Sandviksodden (approx. 144 m)
BSicon .svgBSicon exTUNNEL2.svgBSicon STR.svg
Tunnel (about 33.5 m)
BSicon .svgBSicon exTUNNEL2.svgBSicon STR.svg
Tunnel (about 40 m)
BSicon .svgBSicon exHST.svgBSicon STR.svg
169.47 Kjose (1882-2018) 31.5  moh.
BSicon .svgBSicon exBST.svgBSicon STR.svg
169.82 Kjose block post
BSicon .svgBSicon exHST.svgBSicon STR.svg
171.84 Strandsmyr (1938)
BSicon .svgBSicon exhKRZWae.svgBSicon STR.svg
Bærug bro (93 m)
BSicon .svgBSicon exHST.svgBSicon STR.svg
174.44 Eikenes (1891-2018) 31.7  moh.
BSicon .svgBSicon exTUNNEL2.svgBSicon STR.svg
Tunnel (about 23 m)
BSicon .svgBSicon exTUNNEL2.svgBSicon STR.svg
Tunnel (about 34 m)
BSicon .svgBSicon exhKRZWae.svgBSicon STR.svg
Farriselva (approx. 20 m)
BSicon .svgBSicon exTUNNEL1.svgBSicon STR.svg
Tunnel (approx. 108 m)
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Tunnel (about 30 m)
BSicon .svgBSicon exHST.svgBSicon STR.svg
Bakke (-1978)
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169.203 Nøklegård tunnel (3,810 m)
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Vestfold / Telemark border
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173.083
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Gunnarsrød bru
BSicon .svgBSicon exSTR.svgBSicon TUNNEL2.svg
~ 173.30 Langangentunnelen (635 m)
BSicon .svgBSicon exSTR.svgBSicon hKRZWae.svg
Ønna bru
BSicon .svgBSicon exSTR.svgBSicon TUNNEL1.svg
~ 177.00 Storberget tunnel (4,720 m)
BSicon .svgBSicon exSTR.svgBSicon hKRZWae.svg
Herregårds bru (230 m)
BSicon .svgBSicon exTUNNEL2.svgBSicon STR.svg
Ragnhildrødvann tunnel (approx. 61 m)
BSicon .svgBSicon exBHF.svgBSicon STR.svg
182.10 Oklungen (1882-2018) 45.1  moh.
BSicon .svgBSicon exHST.svgBSicon STR.svg
188.65 Bjørkedal (1882)
BSicon .svgBSicon exHST.svgBSicon STR.svg
Tjølsrud
BSicon .svgBSicon xABZg + l.svgBSicon STR.svg
Brevikbanen
BSicon .svgBSicon DST.svgBSicon STR.svg
192.60 Eidanger (1882) (formerly Pers.-Halt)
BSicon .svgBSicon STR.svgBSicon WBRÜCKE1.svg
Herregårdsbekken bro (36 m)
BSicon .svgBSicon STR.svgBSicon TUNNEL1.svg
Eidanger tunnel (2,080 m)
BSicon .svgBSicon ABZgl.svgBSicon STR.svg
Bjørntvedt sidespor (Norcem)
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New Farriseidet – Porsgrunn line from Sept. 24, 2018
   
from Norsk Hydro , Herøya (until Nov. 22, 2002)
Station, station
190.12 Porsgrunn (1882) 5.7  moh.
   
Leirkup (about 25 m)
   
Slotsbrogaten (–1978)
   
188.84 Osebakken (1883–1978)
   
Vidarsgate (-1970)
   
187.10 Borgestadholmen (1883)
Station without passenger traffic
186.80 Borgestad (1916) 9.8  moh.
   
185.95 Bøle (1883)
   
Kjær (–1970)
   
183.84 Eikonrød (1916) 17.2  moh.
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Bratsbergbanen
BSicon STR.svgBSicon exTUNNEL1.svgBSicon .svg
Tunnel (about 120 m)
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185.74 Skien gamle stasjon (1882)
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180.50 Skien (1917) 43.5  moh.
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Bratsberg Railway to North Agutu

The Vestfoldbane ( German  Vestfoldbahn ) is a 149 km long railway line in Norway , which leads from Drammen through the eponymous former Fylke Vestfold to Skien in the former province of Telemark . Since the beginning of 2020, both places have been in the newly created province of Vestfold og Telemark

history

Originally the railway was called Grevskapsbanen or Jarlsbergbanen . The line Drammen - Larvik was opened on October 13, 1881, the remainder of Larvik - Skien on November 23, 1882. The railway was built as a narrow-gauge railway with a gauge of 1067 mm.

The Vestfoldbane had some branch lines. The Hortenlinja from Skoppum to Horten was opened in 1882, and the Brevikbane from Eidanger to Brevik in 1895 . There were also the branch lines from Tønsberg to Eidsfoss ( railway line Tønsberg – Eidsfoss , opened 1901) and from Holmestrand to Hvittingfoss ( railway line Holmestrand – Vittingfoss , opened 1902). The latter two routes were closed in 1938. In Skien the Vestfoldbane merges into the Bratsbergbane .

The Vestfold Railway was the last of the Norwegian railway lines to be converted from narrow gauge to standard gauge . The reconstruction began only slowly during the Second World War and only really got going after the end of the war, so that the line was completed as a standard-gauge railway in 1949. In the meantime, there was a third rail between Eidanger and Skien , so that it was possible to drive not only narrow-gauge but also standard-gauge vehicles, which were used from Brevik to Notodden and on to Rjukan . The Vestfoldbane was electrified in 1957. Passenger transport on the branch line to Brevik was discontinued in the 1960s.

In 2001 a new line of twelve kilometers between Skoger and Holm north of Holmestrand was opened and in January 2008 a new stopping point two kilometers from the airport (Oslo) Sandefjord-Torp. A bus shuttle takes over the transport from the stop to the airport. In 2009 the construction of two new lines between Holm – Holmestrand (nine kilometers) and Barkåker – Tønsberg (six kilometers) began.

On January 31, 2020, the extension of the 13.6 kilometer stretch between Nykirke and Barkåker to two-lane operation began. Transport Minister Knut Arild Hareide opened the construction work. This project was originally supposed to be completed in 2025, but the date has now been brought forward to 2024. As things stand today, the costs are estimated at NOK 916 million .

New line from Holm to Nykirke

Construction of the new Holm – Nykirke line began in August 2010.

The new line is 14.2 km long, 12.3 km of which run in the Holmestrandsporten tunnel . The new Holmestrand station was built in the tunnel. This station received three entrances, including one with an elevator. The tunnel received a total of 13 emergency exits through escape tunnels.

The double-track line was estimated in 2014 with construction costs of around 5.57 billion crowns . The opening was planned for autumn 2016.

The track will be built for a top speed of 250 km / h. With the construction of the new line, 26 level crossings will be removed, the travel time will be reduced by five minutes and the total capacity will be increased by the double-track expansion.

On November 28, 2016, the new double-track section between Holm and Nykirke was connected to the old Vestfold Railway. The new Holmestrand station, located in the tunnel, was opened for this purpose. The official opening took place on December 17, 2016 with Prime Minister Erna Solberg and Transport Minister Ketil Solvik-Olsen . With the new timetable from this point in time, all passenger trains will initially travel the new route at a top speed of 160 km / h. This reduces the travel time from Holmestrand to Oslo by 6 to 7 minutes.

In addition, trains are used that run directly from Tønsberg, where numerous expansion works have been carried out, to Oslo. These do not stop in Holmestrand, but improve the seating situation on the trains from Holmestrand to Oslo.

New Farriseidet – Porsgrunn line

Construction of the new Farriseidet – Porsgrunn line began in 2012. This modernization measure accelerated journeys on the Larvik – Porsgrunn section considerably. The journey time is 12 instead of 34 minutes. The double-track line was estimated in 2011 with construction costs of around 6.1 billion crowns . With the new construction of the line, the avalanche safety in winter was increased, obsolete tunnels were replaced, 30 level crossings were closed and the total capacity increased through the double-track expansion. Also is Torp airport better connected. The line was designed for a top speed of 250 km / h and is a prerequisite for the planned 60 km long Grenlands Railway, which will start from Porsgrunn and meet the Sørlandsbane at Skorstøl in Gjerstad . In conjunction with the new Farriseidet – Porsgrunn line, it would shorten the travel time between Oslo on the one hand and Kristiansand and Stavanger on the other by around an hour.

The new line is 22.3 km long, 15.3 km of which run in seven tunnels. The longest of them are the

  • Storberget tunnel with 4,720 m,
  • Martineåsen tunnel with 3,670 m,
  • Skillingsmyr tunnel with 3,810 m and
  • Eidanger tunnel with 2,080 m.

In the new section there are ten bridges with a total length of 1.5 km. These include the bridge over the

  • Vassbotn with 438 m,
  • Paulertjønn with 345 m,
  • Ønna with 230 m and over the
  • Solumelva with 197 m.

The new line went into operation as scheduled on September 24th at 4:07 a.m. Transport Minister Jon Georg Dale made the official opening on September 28, 2018.

The 31.5 km long existing line between Farriseidet and Eidanger was shut down on the night of August 7, 2018 . What the disused railway line is to be used for has not yet been determined. Since August 20, 2018, railway systems and other facilities of the railway infrastructure have been removed. These include overhead lines , 35 steel masts, 6 concrete masts and 680 wooden masts, transformers, 19,000 concrete and 24,000 wooden sleepers. The 14 bridges and 12 tunnels will be preserved. These will be closed to traffic until it has been clarified whether they should be used otherwise.

Web links

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

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. 212 (Norwegian).
  2. Truls Tunmo: Gjennom togstasjonen i 250 km / t. In: Teknisk Ukeblad Media AS. March 18, 2011, accessed September 22, 2014 (Norwegian).
  3. a b c Strekningen Hobekk - Myrane. In: banenor.no. Retrieved September 24, 2019 (Norwegian).
  4. Network Statement 2014. Jernbaneverket , archived from the original on February 3, 2014 ; Retrieved January 18, 2014 (Norwegian).
  5. In Norwegian , the ending "-en" for nouns is a definite article . Therefore the correct designation in German texts is either “Vestfoldbanen” or “die Vestfoldbane”.
  6. Tore Holtet: Eg er glad for at mitt første oppdrag ble et jernbaneprosjekt. In: jernbanemagasinet.no. January 31, 2020, accessed January 31, 2020 (Norwegian).
  7. a b c Vestfold Railway. Jernbaneverket , archived from the original on April 21, 2015 ; Retrieved September 22, 2014 (Norwegian).
  8. Vestfoldbanen åpner mandag November 28th. Bane NOR , July 25, 2018, accessed May 21, 2019 (Norwegian).
  9. jst: New line opened in Norway . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International 11/2018, p. 593.
  10. ^ Trine K. Bratlie Evensen: Modernization of the Vestfold line. banenor.no, March 2, 2018, accessed October 1, 2018 (English).
  11. Trine Evensen Bratlie: Farriseidet-Porsgrunn har APNET for Trafikk. banenor.no, September 24, 2018, accessed October 1, 2018 (Norwegian).
  12. Trine Bratlie Evensen: Norsk Jernbanedrift vant the siste contracts på Farriseidet-Porsgrunn project. banenor.no, June 19, 2018, accessed October 1, 2018 (Norwegian).