Vestfoldbanen
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Course book range : | Lillehammer – Skien: NSB 20 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Route length: | 148 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Gauge : | up to 1949: 1067 mm 1435 mm |
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Power system : | 15 kV 16 Hz ~ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dual track : | Kobbervik – Nykirke Larvik – Porsgrunn |
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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
- Station overview
- Vestfold private banker. In: Store norske leksikon . Retrieved February 21, 2014 (Norwegian).
- Modernization av Vestfoldbanen (Farriseidet - Porsgrunn). Larvik - Porsgrunn at 12 minutes. Jernbaneverket , accessed December 30, 2017 (Norwegian).
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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).
- ↑ Truls Tunmo: Gjennom togstasjonen i 250 km / t. In: Teknisk Ukeblad Media AS. March 18, 2011, accessed September 22, 2014 (Norwegian).
- ↑ a b c Strekningen Hobekk - Myrane. In: banenor.no. Retrieved September 24, 2019 (Norwegian).
- ↑ Network Statement 2014. Jernbaneverket , archived from the original on February 3, 2014 ; Retrieved January 18, 2014 (Norwegian).
- ↑ In Norwegian , the ending "-en" for nouns is a definite article . Therefore the correct designation in German texts is either “Vestfoldbanen” or “die Vestfoldbane”.
- ↑ Tore Holtet: Eg er glad for at mitt første oppdrag ble et jernbaneprosjekt. In: jernbanemagasinet.no. January 31, 2020, accessed January 31, 2020 (Norwegian).
- ↑ a b c Vestfold Railway. Jernbaneverket , archived from the original on April 21, 2015 ; Retrieved September 22, 2014 (Norwegian).
- ↑ Vestfoldbanen åpner mandag November 28th. Bane NOR , July 25, 2018, accessed May 21, 2019 (Norwegian).
- ↑ jst: New line opened in Norway . In: Eisenbahn-Revue International 11/2018, p. 593.
- ^ Trine K. Bratlie Evensen: Modernization of the Vestfold line. banenor.no, March 2, 2018, accessed October 1, 2018 (English).
- ↑ Trine Evensen Bratlie: Farriseidet-Porsgrunn har APNET for Trafikk. banenor.no, September 24, 2018, accessed October 1, 2018 (Norwegian).
- ↑ Trine Bratlie Evensen: Norsk Jernbanedrift vant the siste contracts på Farriseidet-Porsgrunn project. banenor.no, June 19, 2018, accessed October 1, 2018 (Norwegian).